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G
[edit]- Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Carlo Emilio Gadda
- William Gaddis
- Benito Pérez Galdós
- Eduardo Galeano
- Galen
- M. C. Galilei
- Galilei Galileo
- Mavis Gallant
- John Galsworthy
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- Ángel Ganivet y García
- E. Gao
- Arne Garbor
- Pedro António Correia Garção (y Salema)
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Wernher the Gardener
- Helen Gardner
- Romain Gary (b. Kacew also wrote as Émile Ajar)
- George Gascoigne
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- William H. Gass
- Antonio Gaudí
- Théophile Gaultier
- Peter Gay
- Gellius
- Jean Genet
- Bernard Gert
- Gennadius of Marseilles
- Andrew George
- Stefan George
- Georges Bataille
- Edward Gibbon
- William Gibson
- André Paul Guillaume Gide
- Martin Gilbert
William Gilbert
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Étienne Gilson
- Allen Ginsberg
- Eugenia Ginzburg
- Lydia Ginzburg
- Semyonovna Ginzburg Ginzburg
- Jean Giono
- Andrea Giovene
- Jean Giraudoux
- George Gissing
- Karl Adolph Gjellerup
- Fyodor Gladkov
- Louise Glück
- Kurt Gödel
- William Godwin
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Nikolai Gogol
- William Golding
- Oliver Goldsmith
- Ernst Gombrich
- Witold Gombrowicz
- Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov
- Edmond de Goncourt
- Jules de Goncourt
- Gorgias
- Maxim Gorky
- Edmund Gosse
- Rémy de Gourmont
- John Gower
- Baltasar Gracián y Morales
- Julien Gracq
- Antonio Gramsci
- Günter Grass
- Grattius
- Robert Graves
- Camilla Gray
- Henry Gray
- Thomas Gray
- Jane Grayson
- Henry Green
- Julien Green
- Thomas Hill Green
- Graham Greene
- Robert Greene
- Gregory Nazianzen (/of Naziansus)
- Gregory of Nyssa
- Gregory Thaumaturgus
- Pope Gregory the Great
- Julien Greimas
- Franz Grillparzer
- Jacob Grimm
- Wilhelm Grimm
- Hans Jakob von Grimmelshausen
- Vasily Grossman
- George Grossmith
- Weedon Grossmith
- Hugo Grotius
- Andres Gryphius
- Luo Guanzhong
- Félix Guattari
- Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
- Lev Gumilev
- Thom Gunn
- Pierre Guyotat
- Palden Gyatso
- Brion Gysin
H
[edit]- Jürgen Habermas
- Hadrian
- Ernst Haeckel
- Bergljot Hobæk Haff
- Judah Ha-Levi
- Werner Hamacher
- Johann Georg Hamann
- Michael Hamburger
- Rita Hamilton & Janet Perry
- Paul Hammond
- Knut Hamsun
- Peter Handke
- Helene Hanff
- James Hanley
- Guan Hanqing
- Victor Davis Hanson
- Thomas Hardy
- R. M. Hare
- Iivo Härkönen
- Cyril M. Harris
- Leslie Poles Hartley
- Nicolai Hartmann
- Harumichi No Tsuraki
- Jaroslav Hašek
- Robert Hass
- A. T. Hatto
- Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann
- Václav Havel
- David Hawkes
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Friedrich August von Hayek
- Max Hayward
- William Hazlitt
- Seamus Heaney
- Lafcadio Hearn
- Friedrich Hebbel
- Anne Hébert
- Ben Hecht
- Sadeq/ Sadegh Hedayat
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Martin Heidegger
- Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam
- Heinrich Heine
- Werner Heisenberg
- Heketas
- Aaro Hellaakoski
- Joseph Heller
- Héloise
- Helvetius
- Hemachandra
- Ernest Miller Hemingway
- Carl Gustav Hempel
- Rhoda Hendricks
- Henjo
- Robert G. Henricks
- O. Henry (Porter William Sydney)
- Hepassos
- Heraclitus of Ephesus
- Herbert of Cherbury
- George Herbert
- Johann Gottfried von Herder
- Herillus
- Gustaw Herling
- Hermas
- Herodas
- Herodian
- Herodotus
- Robert Herrick
- Alexander Herzen
- Hesiod
- Hermann Hesse
- Hevritos
- George Hewitt
- Stefan Heym
- Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse
- Reynold Higgins
- Tomson Highway
- Nâzim Ran Hikmet
- Hilary of Poitiers
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Chester Himes
- Hipparchia
- Hippias
- Hippocrates
- Hippolytus
- Hippon of Samos
- Hipponax
- Sugita Hisajo
- Marek Hlasko
- Thomas Hobbes
- Rolf Hochhuth
- Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal
- Baron d' Paul-Henri Dietrich Holbach
- Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin
- Lee M. Hollander
- Miroslav Holub
- Homer
- Xiao Hong (/Hsiao Hung) (Zhang Naiyin)
- Theodore Hook
- Andrew Hopkins
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Horace
- Max Horkheimer
- Isaiah Horowitz
- Alfred Edward Housman
- Bohumil Hrabal
- Vidar Hreinsson
- Fu Hsuan
- Yu Huan
- Langston Hughes
- Ted Hughes
- Victor Hugo
- Johan Huizinga
- Wilhelm von Humboldt
- David Hume
- Henry of Huntingdon
- Hun'ya no Yasuhide
- Ho Xuan Huong
- Taha Hussein
- Edmund Husserl
- Francis Hutcheson
- Samuel Hutchison
- Ulrich von Hutten
- Aldous Huxley
- Joris-Karl Huysmans
- Hypatia of Alexandria
- Hyperides
I
[edit]- Yahya Ibn 'Adi
- Muhyi Al Din Ibn Al 'Arabi
- Ibn Al Athir
- Ibn ar-Rawandi
- Wasil Ibn Ata
- Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Yahya Ibn Bajja
- Ibn Battuta
- Abraham ben David Hallevi Ibn Daud
- Ibn Fadlan
- Abu Muhammad 'Ali Ibn Hazm
- 'Abd Al Rahman Ibn Khaldun
- Ibn Kummuna
- Muhammad ibn 'Abd Allah Ibn Massarah
- Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Miskawayh
- Muhammad ibn 'Abd Al Haqq Ibn Sab'in
- Taqi Al Din Ibn Taymiyya
- Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Tufayl
- Amr Ibn Ubayd
- Henrik Ibsen
- Masuji Ibuse
- Ibycus
- Michael Ignatieff
- Ignatius of Antioch
- Ignatius of Loyola
- Ikeda Munemasa
- Takashi Ikemoto
- Ikhwan Al Safa'
- Ilya Ilf
- Morten Illen
- Ivan Illich
- Evald Ilyenkov
- Elizabeth Inchbald
- Robert Green Ingersoll
- Eugène Ionesco
- Nakatsuka Ippekiro
- Muhammad Iqbal
- Luce Iragaray
- Irenaeus of Lyons
- Washington Irving
- Isaeus
- Ise
- Isocrates
- Kobayashi Issa
- Izumi Shikibu
J
[edit]- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
- Arthur Jacobs
- Rolf Jacobsen
- Roman Jakobson
- Jakuren
- Henry James
- P.D. James
- William James
- Fredric Jameson
- Gustav Janouch
- Alfred Jarry
- Karl Jaspers
- Thomas Jefferson
- Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
- Jerome
- Jerome Klapka Jerome
- Jerzy Kosinski (b. Jerzy Lewinkopf)
- Zhang Jie
- Juan Ramón Jiménez
- Étienne Jodelle
- Ch'en Jo-his
- John Cassian
- John Chrysostom
- John Comenius
- John David
- John of Damascus (John Damascene)
- John of the Cross (Juan de la Cruz)
- Eyvind Johnson
- Lincoln Johnson
- Lincoln F. Johnson
- Samuel Johnson
- Uwe Johnson
- Jean de Joinville
- James Jones
- Brian de Jongh
- Ben Jonson
- Flavius Josephus
- Joso
- Pierre-Jean Jouve
- James Joyce
- Chao Ju-kua
- Julian
- Julian of Norwich
- Julius Africanus
- Carl Gustav Jung
- Liu Jung-En
- Ernst Jünger
- Justin Martyr
- Juvenal
- Yrjö Jylhä
K
[edit]- Ismail Kadare
- Franz Kafka
- Eino Sakari Kaila
- Frans Uuno Kailas (formerly Salonen)
- Georg Kaiser
- Viljo Kajava
- Kakinomoto Hitomaro
- Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
- Tomizawa Kakio
- Kālidāsa
- Aino Kallas
- Ghassan Kanafani
- Immanuel Kant
- Erik Axel Karlfeldt
- Lady Kasa
- Erich Kästner
- George S. Kaufman
- Kautilya
- Yasunari Kawabata
- Nikos Kazantzakis
- Cleo McNelly Kearns
- John Keats
- Edmund Keeley
- Gottfried Keller
- Helen Keller
- Catriona Kelly
- Robert Kelly
- Yashar Kemal (Yasar Kemal Gökçeli)
- Yoshida Kenkō (Kenkō Hoshi Urabe Kaneyoshi
- Johannes Kepler
- Frank Kermode
- Jack Kerouac
- Imre Kertész
- Ken Kesey
- John Maynard Keynes
- Daniil Kharms
- Omar Khayyám
- Khovshchinskaya
- Ki No Tomonori
- Ki No Tsurayuki
- Ilmari Kianto
- David Kidd
- Alexander Lange Kielland
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Takarai Kikaku
- Volter Kilpi (until 1886 Ericsson)
- Martin Luther King
- Thomas King
- W.P. Kinsella
- David R. Kinsley
- Rudyard Kipling
- N. Kirdina
- Danilo Kiš
- Kisen
- Humphrey D. F. Kitto
- Aleksis Kivi (Alexis Stenvall)
- Ludwig Klages
- Heinrich von Kleist
- Friedrich Gottlieb Kloptsock
- Pierre Klossowski
- T. M. Knox
- Arthur Koestler
- Kurt Koffka
- Wolfgang Köhler
- Nagata Koi
- Alexandre Kojève
- Koka Monin No Betto
- Koko Tenno
- Oskar Kokoschka
- Ono no Komachi
- Ira Konigsberg
- George Konrád
- György Konrád
- Köppen
- Janusz Korczak (Henryk Goldszmit)
- Veikko Antero Koskenniemi (until 1906 Forsnäs)
- Ignacy Krasicki
- László Krasznahorkai
- Saul Kripke
- Julia Kristeva
- Miroslav Krleza
- Ivan Krylov
- Pan Ku
- Yü Kuang-chung
- Thomas Kuhn
- Maxine Kumin
- Milan Kundera
- Stanley Kunitz
- Alexander Kuprin
- Thomas Kyd
L
[edit]- Jean de La Bruyère
- Marquis de Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier La Fayette
- Jean de La Fontaine
- Francois La Rochefoucauld
- Neil LaBute
- Jacques Lacan
- Choderlos de Laclos
- Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
- Lactantius
- Harold Sonny Ladoo
- Comtesse de Marie Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne Lafayette
- Jules Laforgue
- Pär Fabian Lagerkvist
- Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf
- Alphonse de Lamartine
- Charles Lamb
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- Tommaso Landolfi
- Friedrich Albert Lange
- William Langland
- Sidney Lanier
- Aemilia Lanyer
- Valéry Larbaud
- Philip Arthur Larkin
- Laus Pisonis
- Margaret Laurence
- Comte de Lautreamont (Isidore Lucien Ducasse)
- David Herbert Lawrence
- Thomas Edward Lawrence
- Henry Lawson
- Halldór Kiljan Laxness
- J. M. C Le Clezio
- Sheridan Le Fanu
- Stephen Leacock
- Edward Lear
- F. R. Leavis
- David Leavitt
- Harper Lee
- Laurie Lee
- Georges Lefebvre
- Henri Lefebvre
- James Legge
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Michel Leiris
- Stanisław Lem
- Nikolas Lenau
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
- Jacob Lenz
- Siegfried Lenz
- Miguel León-Portilla
- Giacomo Leopardi
- Mikhail Lermontov
- Alexander Lernet-Holenia
- Alain René Lesage
- Nikolai Leskov
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Leucippus
- Alexandre Leupin
- Nikolai Lev
- Carlo Levi
- Primo Levi
- Emmanuel Levinas
- Philip Levine
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Lewis Mumford
- Charles Staples Lewis
- Clive Staples Lewis
- Matthew G. Lewis
- Michael J. Lewis
- Sinclair Lewis
- Wyndham Lewis
- Libanius
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
- Basil Henry Liddell Hart
- Robert Liddell
- Jonas Lie
- W. Bruce Lincoln
- Torgny Lindgren
- Lindley
- Väinö Linna
- Malcom Little
- Livius Andronicus
- Titus Livy
- Morgan Llywelyn
- Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky
- T. Lobanova
- John Locke
- Peter Lombard
- Jack London
- Bernard Lonergan
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Maria Longhera
- Longinus
- Longus
- Elias Lönnrot
- Félix Lope de Vega (y Carpio)
- Federico Garcia Lorca
- Konrad Lorenz
- Guillaume de Lorris
- Howard Phillips Lovecraft
- Richard Lovelace
- Amy Lowell
- Robert Lowell
- Malcolm Lowry
- Lucan
- Lucian
- Lucilius
- Lucretius
- Niklas Luhmann
- Luis de León
- Gyorgy Lukàcs
- John Lukacs
- Jan Lukasiewicz
- Ramon Lull
- E. S. Lumsden
- Arnost Lustig
- Martin Luther
- Lycophron
- Lycurgus
- John Lyly
- Jean-François Lyotard
- Lysias
M
[edit]- Amin Maalouf
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Arthur Cruttenden Mace
- Ernst Mach
- Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- Archibald MacLeish
- Hugh MacLennan
- John Macquarie & Edward Robinson
- Marshall McLuhan
- Isabel de Madariga
- Gabriel Marcel
- Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck
- Mahādeviyakka
- Naguib Mahfouz
- Norman Mailer
- Antonine Maillet
- Salomon Maimon
- Moses Maimonides
- Bernard Malamud
- Rian Malan
- Curzio Malaparte
- Malchion
- Noel Malcolm
- Nicolas Malebranche
- François de Malherbe
- Stéphane Mallarmé
- Thomas Malory
- André Malraux
- Thomas Malthus
- William Manchester
- Nadezhda Mandelstam
- Osip Mandelstam
- Bernard Mandeville
- Sir John Mandeville
- Manetho
- Alberto Manguel
- Manilius
- Heinrich Mann
- Klaus Mann
- Thomas Mann
- Karl Mannheim
- Frederic Manning
- Katherine Mansfield
- Alessandro Manzoni
- Mar Jacob
- Marcus Aurelius
- Herbert Marcuse
- Walter de la Mare
- Marguerite De Navarre
- Marie de France
- Jacques Maritain
- Pierre Marivaux
- Christopher Marlowe
- Don Marquis
- José Martí
- Martial
- Roger Martin Du Gard
- Harriet Martineau
- Harry Martinson
- Joanot Martorell
- Andrew Marvell
- Karl Marx
- Masaoka Shiki
- Juan Mascaro
- John Masefield
- Georgina Masson
- Edgar Lee Masters
- Masu'di
- P. M. Matarasso
- Mathetes
- Matsuo Munefusa
- Francis O. Matthiessen
- Charles Maturin
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Guy de Maupassant
- François Mauriac
- André Maurois
- Marcel Mauss
- Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Joseph McCabe
- Carson McCullers (Lula Carson Smith)
- Michael McDonough
- William Topaz McGonagall
- Marshall McLuhan
- John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart
- George Herbert Mead
- Alexius Meinong
- Cecília Benevides Meireles
- Philipp Melanchthon
- Melissus of Samos
- Herman Melville
- Menander
- Mencius
- Henry Louis Mencken
- Gregor Mendel
- Moses Mendelssohn
- Eduardo Mendoza
- Menedemus
- Menippus
- Winfried Menninghaus
- George Meredith
- Prosper Mérimée
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Thomas Merton
- W. S. Merwin
- Methodius
- Metrocles
- Jean Meun
- Jean de Meung
- Charlotte Mew
- Gustav Meyrink
- Mibu No Tadamine
- Henri Michaux
- Michelangelo
- George Michell
- Thomas Middleton
- Harriet Taylor Mill
- James Mill
- John Stuart Mill
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- A. V. Miller
- Arthur Miller
- Henry Miller
- Henry Valentine Miller
- Jacques-Alain Miller
- Mary Ellen Miller
- Henry A. Millon
- A. A. Milne
- Czesław Miłosz
- John Milton
- Mimnermus
- Minamoto No Kanemasa
- Minamoto No Morotada
- Minamoto No Muneyuki
- Minamoto No Toru
- Minamoto No Tsunenobu
- Minamoto Sanetomo
- Minucius Felix
- Muhammad Baqir Mir Damad
- Pico della Mirandola
- Yukio Mishima
- Frédéric Mistral
- Gabriela Mistral (Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga)
- Stephen Mitchell
- W.O. Mitchell
- Mithridates
- Mitrodorus of Hios
- Patrick Modiano
- Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
- Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen
- Mohamad Latiff
- Monimus
- Michel de Montaigne
- Eugenio Montale
- Baron de Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Henry de Montherlant
- George Edward Moore
- Marianne Moore
- Alberto Moravia
- Henry More
- Thomas More
- Parvi Morewedge
- Zsigmond Móricz
- Eduard Morike
- Karl Moritz
- Christopher Morley
- William Morris
- James Morwood
- Moschus
- Moses of Chorene
- Walter Mosley
- The Mother (Mirra Alfassa)
- Zeamo Motokiyo
- Motoyoshi Shinno
- Farley Mowat
- Chikamatsu Mozaemon
- Yang Mu
- Paul Muldoon
- Mulla Sadra (Sadr Al Din Al Shirazi)
- Max Müller
- Baron Freiherr von Hieronymus Karl Friedrich Münchhausen
- Abdelrahman Munif
- Alice Munro
- Yi Mun-Yol
- Thomas Murner
- Les Murray
- Musaeus
- Robert Edler von Musil
- Alfred de Musset
N
[edit]- Vladimir Nabokov
- Péter Nádas
- Naevius
- Nagarjuna
- Nahman of Bratslav
- Rutilius Claudius Namatianus
- Nammalvar
- Jean-Luc Nancy
- Shiga Naoya
- R. K. Narayan
- Ogden Nash
- Thomas Nashe
- Natkawska
- Marguerite de Navarre
- Sheikh Nefzaoui
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Leonard Nelson
- Nemesianus
- Jan Neruda
- Pablo Neruda
- Gérard de Nerval
- Otto Neurath
- John Henry Newman
- Isaac Newton
- John Newton
- Nicholas of Autrecourt (de Altricuria; Autricuria; Ultricuria; Autricort)
- Bill Nichols
- William Nicholson
- Nicolas of Cusa
- Reinhold Niebuhr
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Anaïs Nin
- Noin
- Nonnos
- Myles Nora
- Sigurður Jóhannesson Nordal
- Baron Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
- Frank Norris
- Cees Nooteboom
- Notker The Stammerer
- Novalis (Baron Friedrich Leopold von Hardenberg)
- Novatian
- Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
- Winifred Nowottny
- Nozawa Boncho