Popular authors

Les Brown24

American politician 1945

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky69

occult writer 1831–1891

Jim Rohn13

American motivational speaker 1930–2009

Meryl Streep12

American actress 1949

Honoré de Balzac157

French writer 1799–1850

William S. Burroughs110

American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, a… 1914–1997

Rita Levi-Montalcini15

Italian neurologist 1909–2012

Antonio Gramsci22

Italian writer, politician, theorist, sociologist and lingu… 1891–1937

William Saroyan190

American writer 1908–1981

Jean Cocteau123

French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager … 1889–1963

Robert T. Kiyosaki151

American finance author , investor 1947

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow202

American poet 1807–1882

Charles de Gaulle46

eighteenth President of the French Republic 1890–1970

Augusto Pinochet28

Former dictator of the republic of Chile 1915–2006

Doris Lessing94

British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer … 1919–2013

Alexander Pope158

eighteenth century English poet 1688–1744

George Harrison61

British musician, former member of the Beatles 1943–2001

Jean Vanier36

Canadian humanitarian 1928–2019

Julius Caesar18

Roman politician and general -100–-44 BC

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky5

Russian composer 1840–1893

Thomas Hardy171

English novelist and poet 1840–1928

Kanō Jigorō19

Japanese educator and judoka 1860–1938

Herodotus42

ancient Greek historian, often considered as the first hist… -484–-425 BC

Sophia Loren32

Italian actress 1934

José Mourinho50

Portuguese association football player and manager 1963