Authors born between 1900 and 1950
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| Author (number of quotes) | Description |
| A | |
| Abbey, Edward (3) | American author |
| Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem (1) | American professional basketball player |
| Achebe, Chinua (1) | Nigerian novelist, poet |
| Adamov, Arthur (1) | Russian-born playwright |
| Adams, Ansel (1) | American photographer |
| Adams, Joey (1) | stage name of Joseph Abramowitz, American comedian |
| Adorno, Theodor W. (2) | German-born sociologist and philosopher |
| Aldrin, Buzz (4) | American astronaut |
| Alexander, Shana (1) | American journalist |
| Ali, Muhammad (11) | American boxer |
| Allen, Woody (27) | American author, actor, director and producer |
| Allende, Isabel (2) | Chilean American writer |
| Alsop, Stewart (1) | American newspaper columnist |
| Amati, Daniele (1) | Italian physicist |
| Amis, Martin (1) | British novelist |
| Anderson, Philip W. (1) | American physicist |
| Anderson, Walter (1) | American author, painter |
| Angelou, Maya (13) | American author and poet |
| Annan, Kofi (1) | Ghanaian diplomat |
| Anthony, Piers (1) | English-American author |
| Arden, Paul (21) | American creative director and author |
| Armstrong, Louis Daniel (2) | American singer |
| Armstrong, Neil Alden (1) | American astronaut, aerospace engineer |
| Arnold, Vladimir (1) | Soviet-Russian mathematician |
| Aronson, Elliot (1) | American psychologist |
| Asimov, Isaac (37) | Russian-born American author and biochemist |
| Atwood, Margaret (8) | Canadian poet and novelist |
| Auden, Wystan Hugh (1) | English author |
| Auster, Paul (2) | American author |
| B | |
| Bach, Richard (19) | American author |
| Bailey, Pearl (3) | American actress |
| Baker, Russell (1) | American writer |
| Baldwin, James (3) | American novelist |
| Ballard, Duane Robert (1) | American professor of oceanography |
| Bandura, Albert (1) | Canadian-born American psychologist |
| Bangs, Richard (1) | American author and television personality |
| Bardot, Brigitte (1) | French actress and singer |
| Barker, Dan (2) | American activist, author and musician |
| Barry, Dave (11) | American author |
| Barthes, Roland (1) | French literary theorist, philosopher, critic |
| Barzun, Jacques (1) | French-born American historian |
| Bates, Daisy (1) | American civil rights activist, publisher and writer |
| Beagle, Peter S. (1) | American author |
| Beauvoir, Simone de (2) | French author and philosopher |
| Beckett, Samuel (2) | Irish novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet |
| Bellah, Robert Neelly (1) | American sociologist |
| Bennett, Alan (2) | British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author |
| Berger, John (1) | English art critic, novelist |
| Bergman, Ingrid (4) | Swedish actress |
| Berle, Milton (1) | American comedian and actor |
| Berra, Yogi (1) | American baseball player |
| Berry, Wendell (1) | American novelist, poet |
| Betjeman, John (1) | English author and poet |
| Binmore, Ken (1) | British mathematician and economist |
| Bloomfield, Harold (1) | American psychiatrist and author |
| Bombeck, Erma (6) | American comedian |
| Boone, Pat (1) | pen name of Charles Eugene Boone, American singer, actor and author |
| Boorstin, Daniel J. (2) | American historian, lawyer and author |
| Borge, Victor (2) | Danish comedian, conductor and pianist |
| Borland, Hal (3) | American author |
| Borlaug, Norman Ernest (1) | American agronomist, and humanitarian |
| Bott, Raoul (1) | Hungarian mathematician |
| Bowie, David (3) | English musician, actor and producer |
| Bracken, Peg (1) | American author |
| Bradbury, Ray (4) | American fantasy, horror and science fiction author |
| Bradley, Charles (1) | American singer |
| Brando, Marlon (1) | American actor |
| Branson, Richard (1) | English businessman |
| Bresson, Robert (1) | French director |
| Brilliant, Ashleigh (4) | cartoonist |
| Brogan, Denis William (1) | English author and historian |
| Bronowski, Jacob (2) | English mathematician, biologist |
| Brown, H. Jackson (10) | American author |
| Brown, Les (3) | American author |
| Brown, Rita Mae (3) | American writer |
| Bujold, Lois McMaster (1) | American author |
| Bukowski, Charles (17) | American author |
| Burgess, Anthony (2) | English author, poet, composer, and translator |
| Byas, Don (1) | American musician |
| C | |
| Caddy, Eileen (1) | founder of Findhorn Foundation |
| Cage, John (2) | American composer |
| Caldwell, Sarah (1) | American opera conductor, impresario, and stage director |
| Callas, Maria (1) | Greek-American operatic singer |
| Calvino, Italo (1) | Italian author |
| Campbell, Bebe Moore (1) | American author |
| Campbell, Joseph (6) | American author and scientist |
| Camus, Albert (18) | French author, philosopher |
| Canfield, Jack (3) | American author and motivational speaker |
| Capa, Robert (2) | Hungarian war photographer and photojournalist |
| Carletti, Elio (1) | Italian painter |
| Carlin, George (7) | Comedian, actor, author |
| Carter-Scott, Cherie (3) | American author |
| Chakiris, George (1) | American dancer, actor and singer |
| Chopra, Deepak (8) | American New Age guru |
| Clancy, Tom (1) | American author |
| Clapton, Eric (1) | English guitarist, singer and composer |
| Clark, Frank A. (2) | American editor |
| Clarke, Arthur Charles (7) | English author |
| Cleaver, Eldridge (1) | American writer and political activist |
| Cleese, John Marwood (1) | English comedian, author and producer |
| Clinton, Hillary (1) | American politician and jurist |
| Cochran, Johnnie (3) | American lawyer |
| Coelho, Paulo (70) | Brazilian lyricist and novelist |
| Collins, Joan (1) | English actress |
| Commoner, Barry (1) | American biologist |
| Connery, Sean (1) | Scottish actor |
| Connolly, Cyril Vernon (1) | English literary critic and writer |
| Cooper, Alice (1) | American rock singer |
| Corcoran, Barbara (1) | American businesswoman, investor, speaker, author, and TV personality |
| Cosby, Bill (6) | American actor and comedian |
| Cosgrove, Stephen (1) | American author |
| Cousins, Norman (2) | American political journalist, author and professor |
| Cousteau, Jacques-Yves (1) | French naval officer, filmmaker, scientist and author |
| Covey, Stephen R. (4) | American author |
| Crawford, Joan (1) | American actress |
| Crescenzo, Luciano De (1) | Italian author, actor and director |
| Crick, Francis (2) | British molecular biologist, biophysicist and neuroscientist |
| Crosby, Bing (1) | American singer and actor |
| Cussler, Clive (1) | American author |
| D | |
| Dahl, Roald (1) | Norwegian-born English author |
| Dahlberg, Edward (4) | American author |
| Dahlbom, Bo (1) | Swedish philosopher, computer scientist and researcher |
| Dangerfield, Rodney (8) | American comedian |
| Davis, Belva (1) | American television and radio journalist |
| Davis, Bette (1) | stage name of Ruth Elizabeth Davis, American actress |
| Davis, William (1) | English journalist |
| Dawkins, Richard (25) | British evolutionary biologist and author |
| de Geus, Arie (1) | Dutch businessman |
| De Niro, Robert (1) | American actor, producer, and director |
| De Vries, Peter (1) | American editor, novelist |
| Dean, James (1) | American actor |
| Dean, Jimmy Ray (1) | American singer, anchorman, actor and businessman |
| Delon, Alain (2) | French actor, director, producer |
| Dennett, Daniel (47) | American philosopher |
| Devlin, Keith (4) | British writer, mathematician |
| Diamond, Jared (3) | American scientist and author |
| Dietrich, Marlene (3) | German actress and singer |
| Dillard, Annie (1) | American author |
| Diller, Phyllis (3) | American comedian |
| Dior, Christian (1) | French fashion designer |
| Dirac, Paul (3) | English physicist |
| Disney, Walt (2) | American filmdirector and screenwriter |
| Dobzhansky, Theodosius (2) | Russian-born American geneticist and evolutionary biologist |
| Douglas, Michael (2) | American actor and producer |
| Downs, Hugh (1) | American author, producer and TV personality |
| Drucker, Peter Ferdinand (1) | author |
| Durrell, Gerald (4) | English zoologist and author |
| Dyer, Wayne (2) | American author |
| Dyer, Wayne W. (1) | American author |
| Dylan, Bob (5) | American musician and poet |
| E | |
| Ebert, Roger (2) | American film critic, historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author |
| Eco, Umberto (7) | Italian author |
| Eddings, David (5) | American fantasy writer |
| Ellison, Harlan (1) | American writer |
| Ephron, Nora (3) | American director, producer, author |
| Evanovich, Janet (1) | American author |
| F | |
| Fadiman, Clifton (1) | American author, radio and television personality |
| Fawcett, Farrah (1) | American actress |
| Ferguson, Alex (2) | Scottish football manager and player |
| Feynman, Richard (22) | American physicist |
| Fisher, Helen (1) | American anthropologist and human behavior researcher |
| Flagg, Fannie (1) | stage name of Patricia Neal, American author and actress |
| Fonda, Jane (1) | American actress |
| Forbes, Malcolm (1) | American journalist |
| Ford, Harrison (1) | American actor |
| Ford, Julie Anne (1) | Australian radio editor |
| Fossey, Dian (1) | American primatologist |
| Fowles, John (1) | English author |
| Frank, Anne (6) | Jewish victim of the Holocaust |
| Frankl, Viktor E. (4) | Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor |
| Franklin, Aretha (1) | American singer |
| Franklin, Rosalind (1) | English chemist and X-ray crystallographer |
| Fritz, Robert (1) | American author, composer and movie maker |
| Fromm, Erich (6) | German-American philosopher, psychologist |
| Frost, David (2) | English television host, media personality, journalist, comedian, and writer |
| Frye, Mary Elizabeth (2) | American housewife and florist |
| G | |
| Gamow, George (1) | Russian-born American physicist |
| Gardner, John William (1) | American politician and author |
| Gerbner, George (1) | Hungarian-born American professor of communication and the founder of cultivation theory |
| Gibb, Jack (1) | American psychologist and author |
| Gibson, William (1) | American-Canadian novelist |
| Ginsberg, Irwin Allen (1) | American poet |
| Gitomer, Jeffrey (1) | American author and motivational speaker |
| Glasgow, Arnold H. (1) | American humorist |
| Goddard, Neville (1) | American metaphysics trainer |
| Godwin, Gail (1) | American author |
| Golding, William (3) | English author and poet |
| Goldman, William (3) | American author |
| Goodkind, Terry (2) | American author |
| Goodman, Ellen (1) | American journalist |
| Gore, Al (1) | American politician |
| Gotti, John (2) | Italian-American gangster |
| Graham, Billy (1) | pen name of William Franklin `Billy` Graham, Jr., American evangelical Christian evangelist |
| Grayling, A. C. (5) | English philosopher |
| Green, Ruth Hurmence (1) | American author |
| Greene, Graham (1) | English author |
| Gribbin, John (2) | English physicist and author |
| Groom, Winston (2) | American novelist and non-fiction writer |
| H | |
| Halmos, Paul (2) | Hungarian-born American mathematician |
| Halsey, Margaret (1) | American author |
| Hammarskjöld, Dag (3) | Swedish politician |
| Handey, Jack (1) | American humorist |
| Hansberry, Lorraine (1) | American author |
| Harris, Ed (1) | American actor |
| Harrison, George (1) | English musician, singer and songwriter, the lead guitarist of the Beatles |
| Harwell, Ernie (1) | American sportscaster |
| Hawking, Stephen (13) | English physicist |
| Hawn, Goldie (2) | American actress, director, singer, and producer |
| Hay, Louise L. (2) | American author |
| Heinlein, Robert Anson (5) | American science fiction writer |
| Heisenberg, Werner (4) | German physicist |
| Hepburn, Audrey (5) | English–Dutch-born American-English actress |
| Hepburn, Katharine (1) | American actress |
| Herbert, Frank (2) | American sci-fi author |
| Hertzberg, Hendrik (1) | American journalist |
| Heschel, Abraham Joshua (1) | Polish-born American rabbi, theologian, and philosopher |
| Hinckley, Gordon B. (1) | |
| Hitchens, Christopher (5) | British American author and journalist |
| Hoffman, Dustin (2) | American actor and producer |
| Holliwell, Raymond (1) | American author |
| Holtz, Lou (5) | American football coach and motivational speaker |
| Hope, Bob (5) | English-born American comedian |
| Hull, Raymond (1) | Canadian screenwriter |
| I | |
| Iacocca, Lee (2) | American businessman |
| Irving, John (1) | American novelist |
| Ivins, Molly (1) | pen name of Mary Tyler Ivins, American newspaper columnist, author, political commentator, and humorist |
| J | |
| J. Gaines, Ernest (1) | African-American author |
| Jackson, Jesse Louis (1) | American activist |
| Jackson, Samuel L. (1) | American actor |
| Jeffers, Susan (1) | American psychologist |
| John, Elton (1) | English composer, musician and singer |
| Johnson, Wendell (1) | American psychologist |
| Johnston, Lynn (1) | Canadian cartoonist |
| Jones, Franklin Pierce (2) | American author, comedian |
| Jones, James Earl (1) | American actor |
| Jones, Tommy Lee (1) | American actor, director, producer and screenwriter |
| Jong, Erica (3) | American author and teacher |
| Joplin, Janis Lyn (4) | American singer |
| József, Attila (10) | Hungarian poet |
| K | |
| Kahlo, Frida (3) | Mexican painter |
| Kahneman, Daniel (2) | Israeli-American psychologist |
| Kaku, Michio (5) | American theoretical physicist |
| Kanin, Garson (1) | American author and director |
| Kelley, Kitty (1) | American journalist |
| Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (3) | the 35th President of the United States |
| Kennedy, Robert F. (1) | American politican |
| Kidd, Sue Monk (3) | American writer |
| King, B. B. (2) | stage name of Riley B. King, American blues musician |
| King, Martin Luther (12) | American clergyman, activist |
| King, Stephen (108) | American author |
| Kleitman, Daniel (1) | American mathematician |
| Koestler, Arthur (4) | Hungarian author and journalist |
| Kroc, Ray (2) | American fast food businessman |
| Kundera, Milan (3) | Czech-French author, playwright and poet |
| Kurtz, Paul (1) | American skeptic and secular humanist |
| Kurzweil, Ray (6) | American inventor and author |
| L | |
| Lagerfeld, Karl (1) | German fashion designer |
| Lakatos, Imre (1) | Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science |
| Lamarr, Hedy (1) | Austrian-born American actress and inventor |
| Lamb, Wally (1) | American author |
| Langer, Ellen J. (3) | American psychologist |
| Larson, Doug (10) | English runner |
| Larson, Gary (1) | American cartoonist |
| Lasch, Christopher (1) | American historian and moralist |
| Lebowitz, Fran (2) | American author |
| Lec, Stanislaw Jerzy (3) | Polish poet |
| Lederer, Richard (1) | American author, speaker, and teacher |
| Lederman, Leon (1) | American physicist |
| Lee, Bruce (11) | American martial arts instructor and actor |
| Lee, Christopher (2) | English actor |
| Lee, Harper (7) | American author |
| Lee, Stan (1) | pen name of Stanley Martin Lieber, American comic book writer |
| Lehrer, Tom (2) | American singer and mathematician |
| Leigh, Vivien (1) | English actress |
| Lennon, John (10) | English musician and singer-songwriter, one of the founding members of The Beatles |
| Levant, Oscar (4) | American musician, actor, author |
| Levenson, Sam (3) | American comedian |
| Levi-Strauss, Claude (1) | French anthropologist, ethnologist |
| Levine, Stephen (1) | American poet, author |
| Liebling, A. J. (1) | American journalist |
| Likert, Rensis (1) | American psychologist |
| Lindbergh, Anne Morrow (1) | American pilot |
| Lindsay, Margaret (1) | American actress |
| Livingstone, Ian (1) | English author and entrepreneur |
| Lombardi, Vince (3) | American coach |
| Loren, Sophia (1) | Italian actress |
| Lorenz, Konrad (3) | Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist |
| Low, George (1) | NASA administrator and 14th President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| Lowry, Lois (1) | American author |
| Lydiard, Arthur (1) | New Zealand runner and athletics coach |
| Lynes, Russell (1) | American art historian and photographer |
| M | |
| Maclaine, Shirley (1) | American actress |
| Mailer, Norman (2) | American author |
| Mandela, Nelson (7) | President of South Africa |
| Mandelbrot, Benoit (1) | Polish-born, French-American mathematician |
| Mannes, Marya (1) | pen name of Maria von Heimburg Mannes, American author and criticist |
| Manson, Charles (1) | American criminal |
| Mantle, Mickey (1) | American baseball player |
| Márai, Sándor (10) | Hungarian author |
| Marley, Bob (7) | Jamaican singer, songwriter and musician |
| Márquez, Gabriel Garcia (1) | Columbian author, activist |
| Martin, Dean (1) | American singer, comedian and producer |
| Martin, George R. R. (5) | American novelist, screenwriter, and television producer |
| Martin, Steve (2) | American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician |
| May, Rollo (1) | American psychologist |
| Mayr, Ernst (1) | German-American evolutional biologist |
| McCabe, Charles (1) | American journalist |
| McCarthy, Cormac (1) | American author |
| McCarthy, John (1) | American computer scientist |
| McCartney, Paul (1) | English musician |
| McCourt, Malachy (1) | Irish-American actor, author and politician |
| McEwan, Ian (1) | English author |
| McLaughlin, Mignon (1) | American author and journalist |
| McLeod, Bobby (1) | Australian activist, poet and musician |
| McLuhan, Marshall (3) | Canadian philosopher |
| Medawar, Peter (2) | Brazilian-English biologist |
| Meltzer, Bernard C. (2) | American radio host |
| Mercury, Freddie (1) | English musician, singer of the Queen |
| Meri, Lennart Georg (1) | Estonian-born author, director, politician |
| Merton, Robert K. (1) | American sociologist |
| Meyer, Joyce (1) | pen name of Pauline Joyce Hutchison Meyer, American author and speaker |
| Michener, James A. (1) | American author |
| Milligan, Spike (1) | Irish-born author, poet, comedian, musician |
| Mirren, Helen (2) | American actress |
| Mitchell, Margaret (1) | American author |
| Monroe, Marilyn (28) | American singer and actress |
| Moore, Roger (1) | English actor and producer |
| Morrison, Jim (7) | American singer, author, poet, director |
| Mott, Nevill Francis (1) | English physicist |
| Moynihan, Daniel Patrick (1) | American politician, sociologist |
| Murakami, Haruki (14) | Japanese author and translator |
| N | |
| Needham, Richard J. (1) | Canadian comedian |
| Nelms, Cynthia (1) | American musician, singer |
| Nelson, Ricky (1) | American singer |
| Neruda, Pablo (1) | Chilean-born author |
| Neumann, John von (3) | Hungarian-American mathematician |
| Newman, Paul (1) | American actor, director |
| Nhat Hanh, Thich (4) | Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet |
| Nicholson, Jack (1) | American actor, filmdirector and producer |
| Nightingale, Earl (1) | American author, motivational speaker |
| Nin, Anais (1) | French-American author |
| Nixon, Richard (2) | the 37th President of the United States |
| Nizer, Louis (1) | English-born American lawyer and author |
| Noll, Peter (8) | Swiss lawyer, professor and author |
| Norris, Chuck (1) | American actor |
| O | |
| Orben, Robert (4) | American author and magician |
| Orwell, George (17) | English author, criticist, journalist |
| Osbourne, Ozzy (4) | pen name of John Michael Osbourne, English singer |
| Osho (5) | Indian guru and spiritual teacher |
| Owens, Jesse (1) | American athlete |
| Örkény, István (2) | Hungarian author, playwright |
| P | |
| Pacino, Al (2) | stage name of Alfredo James Pacino, American actor |
| Page, Jimmy (1) | English musician, composer |
| Parcells, Bill (1) | American futball coach |
| Parker, Charlie (1) | American jazz saxophonist and composer |
| Parkinson, Cyril Northcote (1) | English historian |
| Parton, Dolly (1) | American singer, actress |
| Patterson, James (6) | American author |
| Pauling, Linus (2) | American chemist |
| Paulos, John Allen (1) | American mathematician |
| Penrose, Roger (3) | English mathematician and physicist |
| Peter, Laurence J. (2) | American educator |
| Petty, Tom (2) | American singer and songwriter |
| Pierce, Edith Lovejoy (1) | English-American poet |
| Piercy, Marge (1) | American poet, author, and activist |
| Pilgrim, Peace (1) | American activist |
| Pinter, Harold (1) | English screenwriter, director and actor |
| Piper, John (1) | American Christian preacher and author |
| Plath, Sylvia (3) | American author and poet |
| Pohl, Frederick (1) | full name Frederik George Pohl, Jr., American science fiction writer and editor |
| Popper, Karl (2) | Austrian philosopher |
| Pratchett, Terry (42) | English author |
| Presley, Elvis (1) | American singer and actor |
| Presley, Elvis Aaron (2) | American musician and actor |
| Pross, Addy (1) | chemicist |
| Puzo, Mario Gianluigi (1) | American author |
| R | |
| Radnóti, Miklós (5) | Hungarian poet |
| Ram Dass, Baba (1) | pen name of Richard Alpert, American spiritual teacher |
| Rand, Ayn (8) | Russian-born American author and philosopher |
| Randi, James (4) | Canadian-American stage magician, skeptic |
| Raymo, Chet (1) | American writer, educator |
| Reagan, Ronald (1) | the 40th President of the United States |
| Rees, Martin (2) | British cosmologist and astrophysicist |
| Reeves, Hubert (1) | French Canadian astrophysicist |
| Rényi, Alfréd (1) | Hungarian mathematician |
| Rice, Anne (9) | American author |
| Rickman, Alan (2) | English actor |
| Ritchie, Dennis MacAlistair (2) | American computer scientist |
| Robbins, Tom (2) | American author |
| Roberts, Nora (1) | American author |
| Robinson, Brooks (1) | American baseball player |
| Robinson, Jackie (1) | American baseball player |
| Roddick, Anita (1) | British businesswoman |
| Rogers, Carl (1) | American psychologist |
| Rogers, Kenny (1) | American singer, actor |
| Rosten, Leo (1) | Russian teacher, humorist |
| Royal, Darrell (1) | American football player and coach |
| Rubbia, Carlo (1) | Italian physicist |
| Rumsfeld, Donald (1) | American politician and businessman |
| Runbeck, Margaret Lee (2) | American author |
| Rupp, Joyce (1) | American author and psychologist |
| Rushdie, Salman (1) | British Indian novelist and essayist |
| S | |
| Sacks, Oliver (1) | English neurologist |
| Sagan, Carl (46) | American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author |
| Sagan, Francoise (1) | French author |
| Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de (11) | French author and pilot |
| Saint-Laurent, Yves (1) | French fashion designer |
| Salinger, Jerome David (1) | American author |
| Salk, Jonas (1) | American doctor |
| Samuelson, Paul (1) | American economist |
| Sarandon, Susan (1) | American actress |
| Sarton, May (2) | pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton, American poet |
| Sartre, Jean-Paul (5) | French philosopher |
| Satir, Virginia (1) | American author and therapist |
| Scheffer, Victor B. (1) | American biologist |
| Schuller, Robert Harold (3) | American clergyman, author, and TV personality |
| Schulz, Charles Monroe (1) | American cartoonist |
| Schwartz, Morrie (1) | American sociology professor |
| Schwarzenegger, Arnold (6) | Austrian and American bodybuilder, actor, politician |
| Sculley, John (1) | American businessman |
| Seaborg, Glenn T. (2) | American scientist |
| Seeger, Pete (1) | American folk singer |
| Sexton, Anne (1) | American author and poet |
| Shankly, Bill (1) | Scottish football player and manager |
| Shapiro, Harold S. (1) | Swedish-American mathematician |
| Sheehan, George (1) | American author |
| Shore, Dinah (1) | American singer and actress |
| Simic, Charles (1) | Serbian-American poet |
| Sinatra, Frank (2) | American musician and actor |
| Skinner, B. F. (1) | American psychologist and author |
| Smiley, Jane (1) | Americal novelist |
| Spence, Gerry (2) | American lawyer |
| Stallone, Sylvester (1) | American actor, filmdirector, and screenwriter |
| Steinbeck, John (6) | American author |
| Steinem, Gloria (1) | American feminist and author |
| Streep, Meryl (1) | American actress |
| Suzuki, David (1) | Canadian academic |
| Swindoll, Charles Rozell (2) | American clergyman and author |
| Szabó, Magda (4) | Hungarian author, translator |
| Szasz, Thomas Stephen (1) | Hungarian-born American psychiatrist |
| T | |
| Teresa, Mother (7) | Albanian-born Indian Roman Catholic nun |
| Thomas, Dylan (1) | Welsh poet and writer |
| Thompson, Hunter S. (1) | American journalist and author |
| Thompson, Kenneth Lane (2) | American computer scientist |
| Tolle, Eckhart (10) | German-born Canadian author and spiritualist |
| Tomlin, Lily (3) | American actress, producer, author |
| Tracy, Brian (2) | American author |
| Trigger, Bruce Graham (1) | Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist |
| Truffaut, Francois (1) | French director and criticist |
| Trump, Donald (2) | American president, businessman and author |
| Turing, Alan (1) | English mathematician |
| Tynan, Kenneth (1) | English author |
| U | |
| Ulam, Stanislaw (1) | Polish-American mathematician |
| Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher (1) | America historian and writer |
| Ustinov, Peter (3) | English actor, director, author |
| V | |
| Vaughan, Bill (1) | American author |
| Veenhoven, Ruut (1) | Dutch sociologist |
| Vidal, Gore (1) | American author and politician |
| Vonnegut, Kurt (11) | American writer |
| Vos Savant, Marilyn (1) | American author |
| W | |
| Wadsworth, Charles (1) | American classical pianist and musical promoter |
| Waits, Tom (6) | American musician and actor |
| Walesa, Lech (1) | Polish politician |
| Walken, Christopher (2) | American actor |
| Walters, J. Donald (1) | Romanian-born yogi and author |
| Ward, William Arthur (6) | American author |
| Warhol, Andy (8) | American painter |
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| Zamperini, Louis (1) | American athlete |
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| Zelazny, Roger (2) | full name Roger Joseph Zelazny, American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels |
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