Famous writers

Authors, poets and storytellers. Ranked by how widely they are referenced across Wikidata.

Su Shi

Chinese writer and politician (1037–1101)

Joseph Dalton Hooker

British botanist and explorer (1817–1911)

Rabindranath Tagore

Indian polymath (1861–1941)

Ferdinand von Mueller

German-Australian botanist (1825–1896)

Asa Gray

American botanist (1810–1888)

Martin Zeiler

German Author

John Lindley

English botanist, gardener and orchidologist (1799–1865)

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Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel

German physician (1783–1856)

Bai Juyi

Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty (772-846)

Nandalal Bose

Indian artist and a pioneer of modern Indian art (1882-1966)

Rolf Singer

German mycologist (1906–1994)

Joseph Nelson Rose

American botanist (1862–1928)

Nathaniel Lord Britton

American botanist, taxonomist (1859–1934)

Paul the Apostle

Christian apostle and missionary (c. 5 – c. 64/65)

Stephen Thomas Erlewine

American music journalist (born 1973)

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

French naturalist (1744–1829)

William Jackson Hooker

English botanist (1785–1865)

Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius

German botanist (1794–1868)

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William Trelease

American entomologist (1857–1945)

Randall Munroe

American cartoonist and author (born 1984)

Jakub Malý

Czech publicist, translator and writer (1811-1885)

Josef Velenovský

Czech naturalist

John Herschel

English polymath (1792–1871)

Aesop

Ancient Greek storyteller (620–564 BCE)

Emily Dickinson

American poet (1830–1886)

Heinrich Heine

German writer and literary critic (1797–1856)

Józef Ignacy Kraszewski

Poland's most prolific novelist (1812–1887)

Thomas Bodström

Swedish politician (born 1962)

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

Polish writer and artist (1885–1939)

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Rupert Charles Barneby

British-born American botanist

Piet Mondrian

Dutch painter (1872–1944)

Jaroslav Vrchlický

Czech lyrical poet (1853–1912)

Fernando Henrique Cardoso

President of Brazil from 1995 to 2003

William Shakespeare

English playwright and poet (1564–1616)

Wang Anshi

Chinese Song dynasty politician (1021–1086)

Carl Peter Thunberg

Swedish naturalist (1743–1828)

Victor Hugo

French writer and politician (1802–1885)

Pablo Picasso

Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer and polymath (1749–1832)

Alexander Pushkin

Russian writer (1799–1837)

Al-Ma'arri

Arab philosopher and poet (973–1057)

William Healey Dall

American naturalist (1845–1927)

Carl Bildt

Swedish politician and diplomat (born 1949)

Francis of Assisi

Italian Catholic saint (1181–1226)

Apel·les Mestres

Catalan writer and graphic artist (1854-1936)

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Ibn Nubata

14th-century Egyptian poet

Douglas Adams

English writer and humourist (1952–2001)