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Paul Graham (programmer)
English programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
Norman Mailer
American writer (1923โ€“2007)
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892โ€“1973)
Shigesato Itoi
Japanese game designer and copywriter
Murray Rothbard
American economist (1926โ€“1995)
Paul Reiser
American actor
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932โ€“1963)
Adrienne Rich
American poet, essayist and feminist (1929โ€“2012)
Thomas Merton
American Trappist monk (1915โ€“1968)
Camille Paglia
American feminist academic and critic (born 1947)
Bertrand Russell
British philosopher and logician (1872โ€“1970)
Megumi Hayashibara
Japanese voice actress, singer, and radio personality (born 1967)
Karl Korsch
German theoretician and political philosopher (1886โ€“1961)
Franz Xaver von Wegele
German historian (1823โ€“1897)
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish satirist and cleric (1667โ€“1745)
Maaya Sakamoto
Japanese actress and singer (born 1980)
Charles Dantzig
French author
Susan Sontag
American writer, critic and public intellectual (1933โ€“2004)
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, philosopher and writer (1932โ€“2016)
Jack London
American author, journalist and social activist (1876โ€“1916)
Emmanuel Barbier
French journalist and catholic priest (1851-1925)
Steve Erickson
American novelist
Salman Rushdie
Indian-British-American novelist (born 1947)
Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905โ€“1980)
Michel Gay
French essayist
Maria Montessori
Italian pedagogue and physician (1870โ€“1952)
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet and playwright (1854โ€“1900)
Hermann Oberth
Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocketry pioneer (1894โ€“1989)
Joost Zwagerman
Dutch writer, poet, and essayist
Alojz Kraigher
Slovene writer and physician