Language/Multiple-languages/Culture/Most-Famous-Non–Contemporary-Artists

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.

20^th 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	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
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	https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Albert%20Camus%29
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	https://www.wikiart.org/en/andy-warhol https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Andy%20Warhol%29
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		https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8ujRSkMl0zCl-5l0Qu5J6vOPzxn91Jqd https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Charles%20Chaplin%29
Clive Staples Lewis	England	Victorian era, Edwardian era, World War I, Interwar, World War II, Post-war era	solicitor	novelist, scholar, broadcaster		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
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		https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:George_Orwell https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28George%20Orwell%29
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		https://www.classiccat.net/poulenc_f/index.php
Franz Kafka	Bohemia	Austro-Hungarian Empire, First Czechoslovak Republic	ritual slaughterer	novelist, short-story writer, insurance officer	Modernism	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
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	https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Gabriel%20Garc%C3%ADa%20M%C3%A1rquez%29
Grant DeVolson Wood	United States of America	Gilded Age, Progressive Era, World War I, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II		painter	Regionalism	https://www.wikiart.org/en/grant-wood
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	https://www.wikiart.org/en/henri-matisse
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		https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28J.%20D.%20Salinger%29
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		https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28J.R.R.+Tolkien%29
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		https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL56B9E8A382FE7CFA https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Louis%20Armstrong%29
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	https://www.wikiart.org/en/frida-kahlo
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		https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL08865B6758432FE8 https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Michael%20Jackson%29
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	https://www.wikiart.org/en/pablo-picasso
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	https://www.wikiart.org/en/jackson-pollock
Primo Michele Levi	Italy	Kingdom of Italy, World War II, Italian Republic	worker	chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer		https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Primo%20Levi%29
Roald Dahl	England	World War I, Interwar, World War II, Post-war period	ship broker	novelist, short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, fighter pilot		https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Roald%20Dahl%29
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	https://www.wikiart.org/en/salvador-dali
Umberto Eco	Italy	Fascist Italy, World War II, Italian Republic	accountant	medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, cultural critic, commentator, novelist		https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Umberto%20Eco%29
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		https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Aleksandr%20Solzhenitsyn%29
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	https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Vladimir%20Nabokov%29
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		https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Михаил_Афанасьевич_Булгаков
Νίκος Καζαντζάκης Nikos Kazantzakis	Greece	King George I, World War I, Greco-Turkish War, 11 September 1922 Revolution, Second Hellenic Republic, 4th of August Regime, World War II, Greek Civil War, Post-war Greece	merchant	writer
ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਾ ਸ਼ੇਰਗਿਲ Amrita Sher-Gil	Hungary, India, France	Hungarian Republic, Kingdom of Hungary, British Raj, French Third Republic	aristocrat and scholar	painter		https://www.wikiart.org/en/amrita-sher-gil
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	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		novelist, activist		https://ko.wikisource.org/wiki/저자:이광수
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		https://ko.wikisource.org/wiki/저자:최남선
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	https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:魯迅 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/26193
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		http://www.haodoo.net/?M=hd&P=martial
徐悲鴻 Xu Beihong	China, France	late Qing dynasty, Republic of China, French Third Republic, socialist transformation	teacher	painter		https://www.wikiart.org/en/xu-beihong
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	https://www.wikiart.org/en/chang-dai-chien
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		https://www.wikiart.org/en/qi-baishi

19^th 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	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
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
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
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
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		https://sherlock-holm.es/ https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Arthur_Conan_Doyle https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/69
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
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		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
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)	England	Victorian era	clergy	writer, illustrator, poet, mathematician, photographer, teacher, inventor		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
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
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
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
Joseph Maurice Ravel	France	French Third Republic	engineer	composer, pianist, conductor	Impressionism	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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
任頤 (任伯年) Ren Yi (Ren Bonian)	China	late Qing dynasty	rice merchant	painter	Shanghai school	https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ren_Bonian
吳昌碩 Wu Changshuo	China	late Qing dynasty, Republic of China		painter, calligrapher, seal artist	Shanghai school	https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ren_Bonian
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^th Century

name	region	period	family background	title	style	link to works
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
Hammâmîzâde İsmâil Dede Efendi	Turkey	Ottoman Old Regime, Nizam-i Cedid, Tanzimat		composer		https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Dede_Efendi,_Hammamizade_İsmail
Hattat Mehmet Sâmi Efendi	Turkey	Tanzimat, First Constitutional Era, Second Constitutional Era	guild official	calligrapher		https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sami_Efendi
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
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
Levnî Abdülcelil Çelebi	Turkey	Mustafa II, Ahmed III	noble	painter		https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Abdulcelil_Levni
Ludwig van Beethoven	Germany	Enlightenment in Germany	musician	composer, pianist	classicism, Romanticism	https://www.classiccat.net/beethoven_l_van/index.php
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/zh-hant/Author:曹雪芹 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3092
鄭燮 (鄭板橋) Zheng Xie (Zheng Banqiao)	China	middle Qing dynasty	teacher	official, painter		https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Zheng_Xie

17^th Century

name	region	period	family background	title	style	link to works
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi	Italy	Age of Enlightenment		composer, violinist, teacher, impresario, priest	Baroque	https://www.classiccat.net/vivaldi_a/index.php
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
王原祁 Wang Yuanqi	China	early Qing dynasty, middle Qing dynasty	official	official, painter		https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wang_Yuanqi
王翬 Wang Hui	China	late Ming dynasty, early Qing dynasty	painter	painter		https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wang_Hui
王鑑 Wang Jian	China	late Ming dynasty, early Qing dynasty	official	painter		https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wang_Jian_(painter)
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
石濤 Shitao	China	early Qing dynasty	royal house	monk, calligrapher, painter		https://www.wikiart.org/en/shitao https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Shitao
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
吳歷 Wu Li	China	late Ming dynasty, early Qing dynasty		painter, poet, calligrapher		https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wu_Li
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
惲壽平 Yun Shouping	China	late Ming dynasty, early Qing dynasty	activist	calligrapher, painter		https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Yun_Shouping

16^th 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		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
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni	Italy	Italian Renaissance	banker	sculptor, painter, architect, poet	High Renaissance	https://www.wikiart.org/en/michelangelo
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
허균 [許筠] Heo Gyun	Korea	middle Joseon period	noble	novelist, poet, politician		https://ko.wikisource.org/wiki/저자:허균
仇英 Qiu Ying	China	middle Ming dynasty	peasant	painter		https://www.wikiart.org/en/qiu-ying https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Qiu_Ying
王時敏 Wang Shimin	China	late Ming dynasty, early Qing dynasty	court academy editor	painter		https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wang_Shih-min
吳承恩 Wu Cheng'en	China	middle Ming dynasty	artisan	poet, novelist		https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:吳承恩 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/26148
沈周 Shen Zhou	China	middle Ming dynasty		painter	Wu school, Southern school	https://www.wikiart.org/en/shen-zhou https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Shen_Zhou
董其昌 Dong Qichang	China	late Ming dynasty	teacher	painter, calligrapher, politician, art theorist		https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Dong_Qichang

15^th 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	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
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli	Italy	Republic of Florence	attorney	diplomat, author, philosopher, historian		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
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino	Italy	Italian Renaissance	court painter	painter, architect	High Renaissance	https://www.wikiart.org/en/raphael
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
文壁 (文徵明) Wen Bi (Wen Zhengming)	China	middle Ming dynasty	official	painter, calligrapher, poet	Wu school, Southern school	https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wen_Zhengming
祝允明 (祝枝山) Zhu Yunming (Zhu Zhishan)	China	middle Ming dynasty		calligrapher, poet, writer, scholar-official		https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Zhu_Yunming
徐禎卿 Xu Zhenqing	China	middle Ming dynasty		writer		https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:徐禎卿
唐寅 (唐伯虎) Tang Yin (Tang Bohu)	China	middle Ming dynasty	restaurant owner	painter, calligrapher, poet		https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tang_Yin
戴進 Dai Jin	China	middle Ming dynasty		painter	Zhe school	https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Dai_Jin

14^th Century

name	region	period	family background	title	style	link to works
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
Guillaume de Machaut	France	House of Capet, House of Valois		composer, poet		https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Guillaume%20de%20Machaut%29
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
王蒙 Wang Meng	China	Yuan dynasty, early Ming dynasty		painter	Southern school	https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wang_M%C3%AAng
施耐庵 Shi Nai'an	China	Yuan dynasty, early Ming dynasty		writer, teacher		https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:施耐庵 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/26093
倪瓚 Ni Zan	China	Yuan dynasty, early Ming dynasty		painter	Southern school	https://www.wikiart.org/en/ni-zan https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ni_Zan
羅本 (羅貫中) Luo Be (Luo Guanzhong)	China	Yuan dynasty, early Ming dynasty		writer		https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:羅貫中 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1511

13^th 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		https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Autore:Dante_Alighieri https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/507
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
王實甫 Wang Shifu	China	Southern Song dynasty, Yuan dynasty		playwright		https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:王實甫
白樸 (白仁甫) Bai Pu (Bai Renfu)	China	Jurchen Jin dynasty, Yuan dynasty	official	playwright		https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:白仁甫
吳鎮 Wu Zhen	China	Yuan dynasty		painter	Southern school	https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wu_Zhen
黃公望 Huang Gongwang	China	Southern Song dynasty, Yuan dynasty		painter, poet, writer		https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Huang_Gongwang
趙孟頫 Zhao Mengfu	China	Southern Song dynasty, Yuan dynasty	imperial family	calligrapher, painter, scholar		https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Zhao_Mengfu
喬吉 Qiao Ji	China	Southern Song dynasty, Yuan dynasty		playwright
鄭光祖 Zheng Guangzu	China	Yuan dynasty		playwright		https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:鄭光祖
關漢卿 Guan Hanqing	China	Jurchen Jin dynasty, Yuan dynasty		playwright, poet		https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:關漢卿

12^th Century

name	region	period	family background	title	style	link to works
李清照 Li Qingzhao	China	Northern Song dynasty, Southern Song dynasty	official	poet, essayist		https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:李清照
范成大 Fan Chengda	China	Northern Song dynasty, Southern Song dynasty		geographer, poet, politician		https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:范成大
陸游 Lu You	China	Northern Song dynasty, Southern Song dynasty	official	historian, poet		https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:陸游
楊萬里 Yang Wanli	China	Southern Song dynasty	official	poet, politician		https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:楊萬里

11^th Century

name	region	period	family background	title	style	link to works
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
王安石 Wang Anshi	China	Northern Song dynasty	official	economist, philosopher, poet, politician	Classical Prose Movement	https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:王安石
范仲淹 Fan Zhongyan	China	Northern Song dynasty	official	poet, politician, philosopher, writer, military strategist		https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:范仲淹
米芾 Mi Fu	China	Northern Song dynasty	general	painter, poet, calligrapher		https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mi_Fu
歐陽修 Ouyang Xiu	China	Northern Song dynasty	official	essayist, historian, poet, calligrapher, politician, epigrapher	Classical Prose Movement	https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:歐陽修
黃庭堅 Huang Tingjian	China	Northern Song dynasty	noble	calligrapher, painter, poet		https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Huang_Tingjian
曾鞏 Zeng Gong	China	Northern Song dynasty	official	essayist, historian, poet, politician, writer	Classical Prose Movement	https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:曾鞏
蔡襄 Cai Xiang	China	middle Song dynasty	peasant	calligrapher, politician, structural engineer, poet		https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:蔡襄
蘇洵 Su Xun	China	Northern Song dynasty		writer		https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:蘇洵
蘇軾 (蘇東坡) Su Shi (Su Dongpo)	China	Northern Song dynasty	literati	poet, writer, politician, calligrapher, painter, pharmacologist, gastronome		https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:蘇軾 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/26172 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Su_Shi
蘇轍 Su Zhe	China	Northern Song dynasty	literati	essayist, historian, poet, politician		https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:蘇轍

10^th Century

name	region	period	family background	title	style	link to works
巨然 Juran	Chiina	Southern Tang kingdom, Northern Song dynasty		painter		https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Juran
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
董源 Dong Yuan	China	Southern Tang kingdom, Northern Song dynasty		painter, official	Southern school	https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Dong_Yuan
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
關仝 Guan Tong	China	late Tang dynasty, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period		painter	Northern school	https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Guan_Tong_(painter)

9^th Century

name	region	period	family background	title	style	link to works
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		https://ko.wikisource.org/wiki/저자:최치원
李商隱 Li Shangyin	China	late Tang dynasty	royal house	poet, politician		https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:李商隱
杜牧 Du Mu	China	late Tang dynasty	noble	poet		https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:杜牧
荆浩 Jing Hao	China	late Tang dynasty, Later Liang dynasty		painter, art theorist		https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Jing_Hao

8^th Century

name	region	period	family background	title	style	link to works
元稹 Yuan Zhen	China	middle Tang dynasty	noble	novelist, poet, politician	New Yuefu Movement	https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:元稹
王維 Wang Wei	China	middle Tang dynasty	aristocrat	poet, musician, painter, politician	Southern school	https://www.wikiart.org/en/wang-wei
白居易 Bai Juyi	China	middle Tang dynasty		poet, official	New Yuefu Movement	https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:白居易
杜甫 Du Fu	China	middle Tang dynasty	official	poet, politician		https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:杜甫
李白 Li Bai	China	middle Tang dynasty	businessman	poet		https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:李白
吳道子 Wu Daozi	China	middle Tang dynasty		painter		https://www.wikiart.org/en/wu-daozi
周昉 Zhou Fang	China	middle Tang dynasty	official	painter		https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Chou_Fang
柳公權 Liu Gongquan	China	middle Tang dynasty		calligrapher		https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Liu_Gongquan
柳宗元 Liu Zongyuan	China	middle Tang dynasty	noble	writer, politician, poet	Classical Prose Movement	https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:柳宗元
張萱 Zhang Xuan	China	middle Tang dynasty		painter		https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Zhang_Xuan
劉禹錫 Liu Yuxi	China	middle Tang dynasty		poet, philosopher, essayist		https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:劉禹錫
韓愈 Han Yu	China	middle Tang dynasty	official	scholar, poet, official	Classical Prose Movement	https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:韓愈
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^th Century

name	region	period	family background	title	style	link to works
王勃 Wang Bo	China	early Tang dynasty	scholar	poet		https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:王勃
陳子昂 Chen Zi'ang	China	early Tang dynasty		poet, politician		https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:陳子昂
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/zh-hant/Author:駱賓王
盧照鄰 Lu Zhaolin	China	early Tang dynasty		poet		https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:盧照鄰

6^th Century

name	region	period	family background	title	style	link to works
歐陽詢 Ouyang Xun	Chiina	Southern Chen dynasty, early Tang dynasty	official	calligrapher, politician, writer		https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ouyang_Xun

5^th Century

name	region	period	family background	title	style	link to works

4^th Century

name	region	period	family background	title	style	link to works
王獻之 Wang Xianzhi	China	Western Jin Dynasty, Eastern Jin Dynasty	noble	calligrapher, politician		https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Calligraphy_by_Wang_Xizhi
王羲之 Wang Xizhi	China	Western Jin Dynasty, Eastern Jin Dynasty	noble	calligrapher, politician, writer		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		https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Gu_Kaizhi

3^rd Century

name	region	period	family background	title	style	link to works

2^nd Century

name	region	period	family background	title	style	link to works

1^st Century

name	region	period	family background	title	style	link to works
Decimus Junius Juvenalis	Rome	early Roman Empire		poet		https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Scriptor:Decimus_Iunius_Iuvenalis https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/46022
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus	Rome	Julio-Claudian dynasty, Year of the Four Emperors, Flavian dynasty, Year of the Five Emperors, Nerva–Antonine dynasty		lawyer, author, magistrate		https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Scriptor:Gaius_Plinius_Caecilius_Secundus https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1036
Lucius Annaeus Seneca minor	Rome	Julio-Claudian dynasty	equites	philosopher, statesman, dramatist		https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Scriptor:Marcus_Annaeus_Lucanus https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/316

1^st Century BC

name	region	period	family background	title	style	link to works
Gaius Valerius Catullus	Rome	late Roman Republic	equites	poet	Neoteric	https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Scriptor:Gaius_Valerius_Catullus https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/8308
Publius Ovidius Naso	Rome	Julio-Claudian dynasty		poet		https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Scriptor:Publius_Ovidius_Naso https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2868
Publius Vergilius Maro	Rome	late Roman Republic, Julio-Claudian dynasty		poet	Augustan	https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Scriptor:Publius_Vergilius_Maro https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/129
Quintus Horatius Flaccus	Rome	late Roman Republic, Julio-Claudian dynasty		lyric poet		https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Scriptor:Quintus_Horatius_Flaccus https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1790

2^nd Century BC

name	region	period	family background	title	style	link to works

3^rd Century BC

name	region	period	family background	title	style	link to works

4^th Century BC

name	region	period	family background	title	style	link to works
Μένανδρος Menandros	Greece	Classical Greece, Hellenistic Greece	general and governor	dramatist	New Comedy	https://el.wikisource.org/wiki/Συγγραφέας:Μένανδρος
屈原 Qu Yuan	Chu	Warring States	royal clan	poet, politician		https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/作者:屈原

5^th Century BC

name	region	period	family background	title	style	link to works
Ἀριστοφάνης Aristophanes	Greece	Classical Greece		comic playwright	Old Comedy	https://el.wikisource.org/wiki/Συγγραφέας:Αριστοφάνης
Ευριπίδης Euripides	Greece	Archaic Greece	retailer	tragedian		https://el.wikisource.org/wiki/Συγγραφέας:Ευριπίδης
Σαπφώ Sappho	Greece	Archaic Greece		poet		https://el.wikisource.org/wiki/Συγγραφέας:Σαπφώ
Σοφοκλῆς Sophocles	Greece	Archaic Greece		tragedian		https://el.wikisource.org/wiki/Συγγραφέας:Σοφοκλής

6^th Century BC

name	region	period	family background	title	style	link to works
Αἰσχύλος Aiskhylos	Greece	Archaic Greece	noble	tragedian, soldier		https://el.wikisource.org/wiki/Αισχύλος https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2825
Πίνδαρος Pindaros	Greece	Archaic Greece		lyric poet		https://el.wikisource.org/wiki/Συγγραφέας:Πίνδαρος https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3650

7^th Century BC

name	region	period	family background	title	style	link to works
Αἴσωπος Aísopos	Greece	Archaic Greece		fabulist, storyteller		https://el.wikisource.org/wiki/Συγγραφέας:Αίσωπος https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/18

8^th Century BC

name	region	period	family background	title	style	link to works
Ἡσίοδος Hesiodos	Greece	Archaic Greece		poet		https://el.wikisource.org/wiki/Συγγραφέας:Ησίοδος https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/191
Ὅμηρος Homeros	Greece	Greek Dark Ages, Archaic Greece		poet		https://el.wikisource.org/wiki/Συγγραφέας:Όμηρος https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/705

9^th Century BC

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10^th Century BC

name	region	period	family background	title	style	link to works