List of playwrights by nationality and year of birth

Dramatists listed in chronological order by country and language:

See also: List of playwrights; List of early-modern British women playwrights; Lists of writers

Albania
See also: List of Albanian writers
 * (1850–1904) Sami Frashëri

Assyria
See also: List of Assyrian writers
 * (born 1965) Rosie Malek-Yonan
 * (born 1969) Monica Malek-Yonan

Australia

 * (1799–1873) Henry Melville
 * (1813–1868) Charles Harpur
 * (1822–1878) William Akhurst
 * (1842–1880) Walter Cooper
 * (1843–1913) Garnet Walch
 * (1843–1908) Alfred Dampier
 * (1846–1881) Marcus Clarke
 * (1846–1918) Mary Foott
 * (1860–1921) Charles Haddon Spurgeon Chambers
 * (1865–1944) Alex Melrose
 * (1867–1905) Guy Boothby
 * (1869–1942) George Beeby
 * (1873–1953) Dora Wilcox
 * (1877–1946) Harry Tighe
 * (1878–1943) Louis Esson
 * (1865–1935) Carlton Dawe
 * (1881–1917) Sumner Locke
 * (1884–1946) Walter J. Turner
 * (1888–1954) Lionel Shave
 * (1894–1918) Adrian Consett Stephen
 * (1906–1954) Malcolm Afford
 * (1912–1988) Kylie Tennant
 * (1916–1999) Morris West
 * (1917–2000) Jack Davis
 * (born 1921) Ray Lawler
 * (1923–2002) Dorothy Hewett
 * (1927–2015) Alan Seymour
 * (born 1933) Wendy Richardson
 * (born 1941) Kenneth G. Ross
 * (born 1942) David Williamson
 * (1944–2006) Alex Buzo
 * (1948–1997) Roger Bennett
 * (1948–2017) Jimmy Chi
 * (1950–2003) Nick Enright
 * (born 1950) Louis Nowra
 * (born 1953) Justin Fleming
 * (born 1955) Michael Gow
 * (born 1959) Richard Frankland
 * (born 1960) Jane Harrison
 * (1964–1989) Bill Neskovski
 * (born 1969) Wesley Enoch
 * (born 1978) Van Badham
 * (born 1978) Lally Katz
 * (born 1978) Tom Taylor

Austria
See also: List of German-language playwrights; List of German-language authors; List of Austrian writers
 * (1791–1872) Franz Grillparzer
 * (1801–1862) Johann Nestroy
 * (1814–1874) Friedrich Kaiser
 * (1839–1889) Ludwig Anzengruber
 * (1863–1934) Hermann Bahr
 * (1866–1945) Richard Beer-Hofmann
 * (1874–1929) Hugo von Hofmannsthal
 * (1874–1936) Karl Kraus
 * (1880–1942) Robert Musil
 * (1885–1969) Franz Theodor Csokor
 * (1886–1980) Oskar Kokoschka
 * (1891–1958) Ferdinand Bruckner
 * (1895–1959) Arnolt Bronnen
 * (1897–1976) Alexander Lernet-Holenia
 * (1901–1938) Ödön von Horváth
 * (1911–1986) Fritz Hochwälder
 * (1921–1988) Erich Fried
 * (1941–2005) Wolfgang Bauer
 * (born 1942) Peter Handke
 * (born 1944) Peter Turrini

Azerbaijan
See also: List of Azerbaijani dramatists and playwrights
 * (1854–1926) Najaf bey Vazirov
 * (1865–1927) Sakina Akhundzadeh
 * (1870–1930) Abdurrahim bey Hagverdiyev
 * (1872–1950) Mammed Said Ordubadi
 * (1874–1918) Abbas Sahhat
 * (1875–1939) Suleyman Sani Akhundov
 * (1879–1945) Huseyngulu Sarabski
 * (1882–1941) Huseyn Javid
 * (1899–1934) Jafar Jabbarly
 * (1910–1981) Rasul Rza
 * (1911–1993) Mirza Ibrahimov
 * (1913–1981) Nigar Rafibeyli
 * (born 1927) Vidadi Babanli
 * (1935–2016) Magsud Ibrahimbeyov
 * (born 1937) Hamid Arzulu
 * (born 1938) Anar Rzayev
 * (born 1949) Natig Rasulzadeh
 * (born 1957) Afag Masud

Bangladesh

 * (1908-1990) Natyaguru Nurul Momen
 * (1925–1971) Munir Chowdhury
 * (1942–2008) Abdullah Al Mamun
 * (1935–2019) Momtazuddin Ahmed
 * (born 1948) Mamunur Rashid
 * (1949–2008) Selim Al Deen

Belarus

 * (1880–1948) Peretz Hirschbein
 * (1888–1962) H. Leivick

Belgium

 * (1862–1949) Maurice Maeterlinck
 * (1885–1970) Fernand Crommelynck
 * (1898–1962) Michel de Ghelderode
 * (1913–2012) Félicien Marceau
 * (1945–1999) Michèle Fabien
 * (born 1960) Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Bosnia and Herzegovina

 * (born 1955) Zlatko Topčić
 * (born 1944) Abdulah Sidran
 * (1950–2015) Safet Plakalo
 * (born 1962) Nenad Veličković

Brazil

 * (1815–1848) Martins Pena
 * (1831–1852) Álvares de Azevedo
 * (1839–1908) Machado de Assis
 * (1857–1913) Aluísio Azevedo
 * (1912–1980) Nelson Rodrigues
 * (1923–2012) Millôr Fernandes
 * (1927–2014) Ariano Suassuna
 * (1931–2009) Augusto Boal
 * (1948–1996) Caio Fernando Abreu

Canada
See also: List of Canadian playwrights; List of Canadian writers; List of Quebec writers; List of French Canadian writers from outside Quebec; List of Canadian plays
 * (1893–1975) Merrill Denison
 * (1909–1999) Gratien Gélinas
 * (1913–1995) Robertson Davies
 * (1930–2016) Marcel Dubé
 * (born 1961) Vittorio Rossi
 * (born 1964) David Gow

Czech Republic
See also: List of Czech writers
 * (1884–1968) Max Brod
 * (1889–1942) Paul Kornfeld
 * (1890–1938) Karel Čapek
 * (1936–2011) Václav Havel

Denmark
See also: List of Danish authors
 * (1684–1754) Ludvig Holberg
 * (1779–1850) Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger
 * (1791–1860) Johan Ludvig Heiberg
 * (1797–1870) Henrik Hertz
 * (1898–1944) Kaj Munk
 * (1901–1961) Kjeld Abell

Dominica

 * (1948–2023) Alwin Bully

Egypt

 * (1835–1902) Abu Khalil Qabbani

France
See also: List of French playwrights; List of French language authors
 * (died c. 1210) Jean Bodel
 * (c. 1237–c. 1288) Adam de la Halle
 * (c. 1470/80–c. 1538/39) Pierre Gringoire
 * (1532–1573) Étienne Jodelle
 * (c. 1535–c. 1607) Jean de La Taille
 * (1540–1619) Pierre de Larivey
 * (1544–1590) Robert Garnier
 * (c. 1570–1632) Alexandre Hardy
 * (1595–1676) Jean Desmaretz de Saint-Sorlin
 * (1601–1667) Georges de Scudéry
 * (1604–1686) Jean Mairet
 * (1606–1658) Pierre Du Ryer
 * (1606–1684) Pierre Corneille
 * (1622–1673) Molière
 * (1625–1709) Thomas Corneille
 * (1635–1688) Philippe Quinault
 * (1638–1701) Edme Boursault
 * (1639–1699) Jean Racine
 * (1640–1723) David-Augustin de Brueys
 * (1650–1721) Jean Palaprat
 * (1654–1724) Charles Rivière Dufresny
 * (1659–1741) Augustin Nadal
 * (1661–1725) Florent Carton Dancourt
 * (1665–1707) Madame Ulrich
 * (1668–1747) Alain-René Lesage
 * (1674–1762) Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
 * (1680–1754) Philippe Néricault Destouches
 * (1688–1763) Pierre Carlet de Marivaux
 * (1692–1754) Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée
 * (1694–1778) Voltaire
 * (1709–1777) Jean-Baptiste Louis Gresset
 * (1713–1784) Denis Diderot
 * (1732–1799) Pierre de Beaumarchais
 * (1740–1814) Louis-Sébastien Mercier
 * (1750–1794) Philippe François Nazaire Fabre d'Églantine
 * (1793–1843) Casimir-Jean-François Delavigne
 * (1798–1855) Adam Mickiewicz
 * (1799–1850) Honoré de Balzac
 * (1802–1870) Alexandre Dumas, père
 * (1802–1885) Victor Hugo
 * (1804–1876) George Sand
 * (1805–1882) Henri Auguste Barbier
 * (1810–1857) Alfred de Musset
 * (1811–1899) Adolphe Philippe d'Ennery
 * (1812–1859) Zygmunt Krasiński
 * (1815–1888) Eugène Marin Labiche
 * (1820–1889) Émile Augier
 * (1823–1891) Théodore de Banville
 * (1824–1895) Alexandre Dumas, fils
 * (1831–1897) Henri Meilhac
 * (1834–1908) Ludovic Halévy
 * (1837–1899) Henry Becque
 * (1840–1897) Alphonse Daudet
 * (1842–1908) François Coppée
 * (1848–1912) Alexandre Bisson
 * (1848–1917) Octave Mirbeau
 * (1848–1918) Georges Ohnet
 * (1853–1914) Jules Lemaître
 * (1854–1928) François de Curel
 * (1857–1915) Paul Hervieu
 * (1858–1922) Alfred Capus
 * (1858–1929) Georges Courteline
 * (1858–1932) Eugène Brieux
 * (1859–1940) Henri Lavedan
 * (1859–1945) Maurice Donnay
 * (1861–1949) Lucien Descaves
 * (1862–1921) Georges Feydeau
 * (1862–1949) Maurice Maeterlinck
 * (1866–1947) Tristan Bernard
 * (1868–1918) Edmond Rostand
 * (1868–1955) Paul Claudel
 * (1869–1915) Gaston de Caillavet
 * (1869–1955) Émile Fabre
 * (1872–1922) Henri Bataille
 * (1872–1927) Robert de Flers
 * (1873–1907) Alfred Jarry
 * (1875–1937) Henri Duvernois
 * (1875–1944) Henri Ghéon
 * (1876–1953) Henri Bernstein
 * (1877–1937) Francis de Croisset
 * (1879–1949) Jacques Copeau
 * (1880–1918) Guillaume Apollinaire
 * (1881–1958) Roger Martin du Gard
 * (1882–1941) James Joyce
 * (1882–1944) Jean Giraudoux
 * (1882–1951) Henri-René Lenormand
 * (1882–1962) René Fauchois
 * (1884–1973) Alexandre Arnoux
 * (1885–1957) Sacha Guitry
 * (1885–1970) François Mauriac
 * (1886–1970) Fernand Crommelynck
 * (1887–1945) Édouard Bourdet
 * (1888–1972) Jean-Jacques Bernard
 * (1889–1963) Jean Cocteau
 * (1889–1973) Gabriel Marcel
 * (1890–1974) André Birabeau
 * (1892–1975) André Obey
 * (1894–1972) Jacques Deval
 * (1895–1970) Jean Giono
 * (1896–1948) Antonin Artaud
 * (1896–1972) Henry de Montherlant
 * (1899–1965) Jacques Audiberti
 * (1899–1974) Marcel Achard
 * (1900–1982) Georges Neveux
 * (1900–1998) Julien Green
 * (1902–1967) Marcel Aymé
 * (1905–1980) Jean-Paul Sartre
 * (1906–1989) Samuel Beckett
 * (1908–1970) Arthur Adamov
 * (1909–1988) Thierry Maulnier
 * (1909–1994) Eugène Ionesco
 * (1910–1986) Jean Genet
 * (1910–1987) Jean Anouilh
 * (1912–1998) Félix Morisseau-Leroy
 * (1913–1960) Albert Camus
 * (1913–2012) Félicien Marceau
 * (1914–1996) Marguerite Duras
 * (1917–1987) Georges Arnaud
 * (1920–2011) Jean Dutourd
 * (1924–2017) Armand Gatti
 * (1927–1991) François Billetdoux
 * (1930–2013) Sławomir Mrożek

Georgia
See also: List of Georgian writers
 * (1802–1869) Alexander Orbeliani
 * (1813–1864) Giorgi Eristavi
 * (1824–1901) Raphael Eristavi
 * (1862–1931) David Kldiashvili
 * (1882–1962) Grigol Robakidze
 * (1904–1938) Gerzel Baazov
 * (born 1977) Lasha Bugadze
 * (born 1980) Nestan Kvinikadze

Germany
See also: List of German-language playwrights; List of German-language authors
 * (1616–1664) Andreas Gryphius
 * (1700–1766) Johann Christoph Gottsched
 * (1724–1803) Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
 * (1729–1781) Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
 * (1737–1823) Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg
 * (1749–1825) Maler Müller
 * (1749–1832) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 * (1751–1792) Jakob Lenz
 * (1752–1806) Johann Anton Leisewitz
 * (1752–1831) Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger
 * (1759–1805) Friedrich Schiller
 * (1759–1814) August Wilhelm Iffland
 * (1761–1819) August von Kotzebue
 * (1770–1843) Friedrich Hölderlin
 * (1774–1829) Amandus Gottfried Adolf Müllner
 * (1777–1811) Heinrich von Kleist
 * (1788–1857) Baron Joseph von Eichendorff
 * (1796–1840) Karl Immermann
 * (1801–1836) Christian Dietrich Grabbe
 * (1806–1884) Heinrich Laube
 * (1811–1878) Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow
 * (1813–1837) Georg Büchner
 * (1813–1863) Friedrich Hebbel
 * (1813–1865) Otto Ludwig
 * (1816–1895) Gustav Freytag
 * (1839–1911) Martin Greif
 * (1862–1946) Gerhart Hauptmann
 * (1865–1944) Max Halbe
 * (1866–1933) Paul Ernst
 * (1870–1938) Ernst Barlach
 * (1876–1947) Ernst Hardt
 * (1878–1945) Georg Kaiser
 * (1882–1961) Leonhard Frank
 * (1884–1958) Lion Feuchtwanger
 * (1886–1969) Johannes von Guenther
 * (1887–1945) Bruno Frank
 * (1888–1960) Curt Goetz
 * (1889–1942) Paul Kornfeld
 * (1890–1940) Walter Hasenclever
 * (1894–1959) Hans Henny Jahnn
 * (1895–1952) Alfred Neumann
 * (1898–1956) Bertolt Brecht
 * (1901–1938) Ödön von Horváth
 * (1906–1970) Stefan Andres
 * (1906–1972) Eberhard Wolfgang Möller
 * (1910–1990) Ulrich Becher
 * (1916–1991) Wolfgang Hildesheimer
 * (1921–1947) Wolfgang Borchert
 * (1925–2017) Tankred Dorst
 * (1927–2015) Günter Grass
 * (1928–2003) Peter Hacks
 * (1931–2020) Rolf Hochhuth

Ghana

 * (1912–1998) Félix Morisseau-Leroy
 * (1924–1978) Joe de Graft
 * (1924–1996) Efua Sutherland
 * (1942–2023) Ama Ata Aidoo
 * (1946–2018) Asiedu Yirenkyi

Greece
See also: List of Greek artists
 * (c. 525 BC–c. 456 BC) Aeschylus
 * (c. 495 BC–c. 406 BC) Sophocles
 * (c. 485 BC–c. 406 BC) Euripides
 * (c. 448 BC–c. 400 BC) Agathon
 * (c. 445 BC–c. 385 BC) Aristophanes
 * (c. 343 BC–c. 290 BC) Menander

Haiti

 * (1912–1998) Félix Morisseau-Leroy

Hungary
See also: List of Hungarian writers
 * (1747–1811) György Bessenyei
 * (1773–1885) Mihály Csokonai Vitéz
 * (1786–1839) Izidor Guzmics
 * (1788–1830) Károly Kisfaludy
 * (1791–1830) József Katona
 * (1800–1855) Mihály Vörösmarty
 * (1800–1866) Gergely Czuczor
 * (1814–1878) Ede Szigligeti
 * (1823–1864) Imre Madách
 * (1842–1891) Gergely Csíky
 * (1845–1918) Lajos Dóczi
 * (1863–1954) Ferenc Herczeg
 * (1869–1944) Dezső Szomory
 * (1878–1952) Ferenc Molnár
 * (1880–1974) Melchior Lengyel
 * (1888–1967) Lajos Egri
 * (1890–1942) Sándor Hunyady
 * (1900–1975) Gyula Háy
 * (1901–1938) Ödön von Horváth
 * (1901–1975) László Németh
 * (1902–1983) Gyula Illyés
 * (1912–1979) István Örkény
 * (1917–2007) Magda Szabó
 * (1927–2006) András Sütő
 * (1930–1989) Erzsébet Galgóczi
 * (1932–2002) János Nyíri
 * (1934–2012) István Csurka
 * (1934–2022) György Moldova
 * (born 1942) Péter Nádas
 * (1943–2010) György Schwajda
 * (born 1946) György Spiró
 * (born 1950) Miklós Vámos
 * (born 1953) Lajos Parti Nagy
 * (born 1960) Zsolt Pozsgai

India

 * (1861–1941) Rabindranath Tagore
 * (1938–2019) Girish Karnad

Iran

 * (born 1938) Bahram Bayzai
 * (1939–2007) Akbar Radi
 * (born 1952) Rosie Malek-Yonan
 * (born 1954) Monica Malek-Yonan

Iraq

 * (1867–1950) Pîremêrd

Ireland
See also: List of Irish dramatists; List of writers from Northern Ireland
 * (1728–1774) Oliver Goldsmith
 * (1735–1812) Isaac Bickerstaffe
 * (1784–1862) James Sheridan Knowles
 * (c. 1820–1890) Dion Boucicault
 * (1852–1932) Lady Gregory
 * (1852–1933) George Moore
 * (1853–1923) William Boyle
 * (1854–1900) Oscar Wilde
 * (1856–1950) George Bernard Shaw
 * (1859–1923) Edward Martyn
 * (1860–1949) Douglas Hyde
 * (1865–1939) W. B. Yeats
 * (1871–1909) John Millington Synge
 * (1873–1956) James Cousins
 * (1873–1959) T. C. Murray
 * (1874–1949) Tadhg Ó Donnchadha
 * (1876–1913) Fred Ryan
 * (1877–1963) George Fitzmaurice
 * (1878–1916) Thomas MacDonagh
 * (1878–1957) Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany Lord Dunsany
 * (1880–1964) Seán O'Casey
 * (1881–1972) Padraic Colum
 * (1882–1941) James Joyce
 * (1883–1971) St. John Ervine
 * (1886–1958) Lennox Robinson
 * (1890–1963) Brinsley MacNamara
 * (1899–1978) Micheál MacLíammóir
 * (1900–1968) Paul Vincent Carroll
 * (1901–1984) Denis Johnston
 * (1902–1961) Edward Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford
 * (1906–1989) Samuel Beckett
 * (1910–2001) Joseph O'Conor
 * (1912–1968) Donagh MacDonagh
 * (1923–1964) Brendan Behan
 * (1926–2009) Hugh Leonard
 * (1928–2002) John B. Keane
 * (1929–2015) Brian Friel
 * (born 1934) Thomas Kilroy
 * (1935–2018) Tom Murphy
 * (born 1949) Billy Roche
 * (born 1952) Peter Sheridan
 * (born 1953) Frank McGuinness
 * (born 1964) Marina Carr
 * (born 1967) Enda Walsh
 * (born 1971) Conor McPherson
 * (born 1971) Jimmy Murphy

Israel
See also: List of Hebrew language playwrights; List of Hebrew language authors
 * (1884–1968) Max Brod
 * (1900–1973) Avraham Shlonsky
 * (1910–1970) Nathan Alterman
 * (1924–2005) Ephraim Kishon
 * (1926–1998) Nisim Aloni
 * (born 1935) Dan Almagor
 * (1936–2022) A. B. Yehoshua
 * (born 1939) Yehoshua Sobol
 * (1943–1999) Hanoch Levin
 * (born 1954) Shmuel Hasfari

Italy
See also: List of Italian writers
 * (c. 1230–1306) Jacopone da Todi
 * (1261–1329) Albertino Mussato
 * (1469–1527) Niccolò Machiavelli
 * (1470–1520) Bernardo Dovizio da Bibbiena
 * (1474–1533) Ludovico Ariosto
 * (1492–1556) Pietro Aretino
 * (1492–1573) Donato Giannotti
 * (1503–1584) Anton Francesco Grazzini
 * (1504–1573) Giambattista Giraldi Cinthio
 * (1507–1566) Annibale Caro
 * (1508–c. 1568) Ludovico Dolce
 * (c. 1525–c. 1586) Giovanni Battista Cini
 * (1535–1615) Giambattista Della Porta
 * (1538–1612) Gian Battista Guarini
 * (1541–1585) Luigi Groto
 * (1548–1600) Giordano Bruno
 * (1568–1642) Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger
 * (1576–1654) Giovan Battista Andreini
 * (1675–1755) Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei
 * (1698–1782) Pietro Metastasio
 * (1707–1793) Carlo Goldoni
 * (1712–1785) Pietro Chiari
 * (1720–1806) Carlo Gozzi
 * (1728–1787) Ferdinando Galiani
 * (1749–1803) Vittorio Alfieri
 * (1754–1828) Vincenzo Monti
 * (1776–1834) Giovanni Giraud
 * (1778–1827) Ugo Foscolo
 * (1785–1873) Alessandro Manzoni
 * (1800–1846) Carlo Marenco
 * (1816–1882) Paolo Giacometti
 * (1822–1889) Paolo Ferrari
 * (1830–1881) Pietro Cossa
 * (1839–1915) Luigi Capuana
 * (1842–1911) Antonio Fogazzaro
 * (1847–1906) Giuseppe Giacosa
 * (1852–1909) Alfredo Oriani
 * (1860–1934) Salvatore Di Giacomo
 * (1861–1943) Roberto Bracco
 * (1863–1938) Gabriele D'Annunzio
 * (1867–1927) Augusto Novelli
 * (1867–1936) Luigi Pirandello
 * (1874–1934) Dario Niccodemi
 * (1876–1944) Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
 * (1877–1949) Sem Benelli
 * (1878–1960) Massimo Bontempelli
 * (1880–1918) Guillaume Apollinaire
 * (1880–1947) Luigi Chiarelli
 * (1882–1921) Ercole Luigi Morselli
 * (1892–1953) Ugo Betti
 * (1898–1992) Valentino Bompiani
 * (1900–1984) Eduardo De Filippo
 * (1907–1954) Vitaliano Brancati
 * (1911–1980) Diego Fabbri
 * (1911–2007) Gian Carlo Menotti
 * (1916-1991) Natalia Ginzburg
 * (1922–1975) Pier Paolo Pasolini
 * (1926–2016) Dario Fo

Japan
See also: List of Japanese writers
 * (1363–1443) Seami Motokiyo Zeami}
 * (1653–1725) Chikamatsu Monzaemon

Kurdistan

 * (1867–1950) Pîremêrd

Latvia

 * (1751–1792) Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz

Lebanon

 * (1933–2017) Jalal Khoury

Lithuania

 * (1882–1957) Antanas Vienuolis
 * (1882–1954) Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius
 * (1893–1967) Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas
 * (1910–1961) Antanas Škėma
 * (1930–2011) Justinas Marcinkevičius
 * (born 1950) Ričardas Gavelis

Macedonia

 * (1964–1989) Blagoje "Bill" Neskovski

Mexico

 * (born 1973) Conchi León

Morocco
See also: List of Moroccan writers
 * (1938–2009) Abdelkebir Khatibi
 * (1938–2016) Tayeb Seddiki
 * (born 1953) Abdallah Zrika

Nepal
See also: List of Nepali writers
 * (1903–1981) Balkrishna Sama
 * (1909–1959) Laxmi Prasad Devkota
 * (born 1945) Abhi Subedi
 * (born 1967) Suman Pokhrel

Netherlands
See also: List of Dutch language writers
 * (1454–1507)? Peter van Diest
 * (1487–1558) Macropedius
 * (1522–1590) Dirck Coornhert
 * (1579–1665) Samuel Coster
 * (1581–1647) Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
 * (1584–1635) Willem van Nieulandt II
 * (1585–1618) Gerbrand Bredero
 * (1587–1679) Joost van den Vondel
 * (1601–1646) Jan Harmenszoon Krul
 * (1612–1667) Jan Vos
 * (1629–1681) Lodewijk Meyer
 * (1631–1669) Catharina Questiers
 * (1639–1672) Joan Blasius
 * (1640–1670) Willem Godschalck van Focquenbroch
 * (1640–1709) Pieter Nuyts
 * (1649–1713) Govert Bidloo
 * (1664–1721) Abraham Alewijn
 * (1682–1729) Maria de Wilde
 * (1683–1756) Pieter Langendijk
 * (1688–1727) Hermanus Angelkot Jr.
 * (1759–1837) Jan van Walré
 * (1854-1938) August Kiehl
 * (1864–1924) Herman Heijermans
 * (1869–1948) Victor Ido
 * (1869–1952) Henriette Roland Holst
 * (1871–1964) Jan Fabricius
 * (1872–1929) Inte Onsman
 * (1878–1942) Rudolf Besier
 * (1882–1937) Henri van Wermeskerken
 * (1885–1963) Herman Bouber
 * (1891–1966) Watse Cuperus
 * (1893–1989) Abel Herzberg
 * (1896–1962) Maurits Dekker
 * (1911–1995) Annie M. G. Schmidt
 * (1912–1993) Max Croiset
 * (1918–1992) Hans Heyting
 * (1927–2010) Harry Mulisch
 * (born 1934) Judith Herzberg
 * (born 1938) Thea Doelwijt
 * (1939–2014) Seth Gaaikema
 * (1943–1995) Ischa Meijer
 * (1944–2012) Gerrit Komrij
 * (born 1946) Adriaan van Dis
 * (born 1946) Paul Haenen
 * (born 1946) Wim T. Schippers
 * (born 1951) Willem Jan Otten
 * (born 1952) Alex van Warmerdam
 * (born 1952) Vonne van der Meer
 * (born 1954) Youp van 't Hek
 * (born 1956) Arjan Ederveen
 * (born 1971) Arnon Grunberg

Nigeria

 * (born 1934) Wole Soyinka
 * (1941–1995) Ken Saro-Wiwa
 * (born 1948) Bode Sowande
 * (born 1964) Sefi Atta
 * (1967–2022) Biyi Bandele

Norway
See also: List of Norwegian writers
 * (1684–1754) Ludvig Holberg
 * (1828–1906) Henrik Ibsen
 * (1832–1910) Bjornstjerne Bjornson
 * (1857–1929) Gunnar Heiberg
 * (1889–1962) Helge Krog
 * (1902–1943) Nordahl Grieg

Pakistan

 * (1914–1999) Mirza Adeeb
 * (1941–2021) Haseena Moin

Poland
See also: List of Polish language authors
 * (1616–1664) Andreas Gryphius
 * (1793–1876) Aleksander Fredro
 * (1798–1855) Adam Mickiewicz
 * (c. 1800–c. 1855) Solomon Ettinger
 * (1809–1849) Juliusz Słowacki
 * (1811–1899) Abraham Dov Ber Gotlober
 * (1812–1859) Zygmunt Krasiński
 * (1820–1869) Apollo Korzeniowski
 * (1860–1921) Gabriela Zapolska
 * (1868–1927) Stanisław Przybyszewski
 * (1869–1907) Stanisław Wyspiański
 * (1874–1915) Jerzy Żuławski
 * (1880–1957) Sholem Asch
 * (1885–1939) Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy)
 * (1904–1969) Witold Gombrowicz
 * (1920–2005) Karol Wojtyła (Pope John Paul II)
 * (1930–2013) Sławomir Mrożek
 * (1938–2017) Janusz Głowacki
 * (1989) Weronika Murek

Portugal
See also: List of Portuguese language authors
 * (1465–1536) Gil Vicente
 * (1799–1854) João Batista de Almeida Garrett
 * (1906–1997) António Gedeão
 * (1922–2010) José Saramago

Romania
See also: List of Romanian playwrights and List of Romanian writers
 * (1821–1890) Vasile Alecsandri
 * (1840–1908) Abraham Haim Lipke Goldfaden
 * (1852–1912) Ion Luca Caragiale
 * (1858–1918) Barbu Delavrancea
 * (1909–1994) Eugène Ionesco

Russia
See also: List of Russian language writers
 * (c. 1745–1792) Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin
 * (1751–1792) Jakob Lenz
 * (1752–1831) Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger
 * (1795–1829) Aleksandr Sergeyevich Griboyedov
 * (1809–1852) Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol
 * (1814–1841) Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov
 * (1823–1886) Aleksandr Nikolayevich Ostrovsky
 * (1856–1909) Innokenty Fyodorovich Annensky
 * (1860–1904) Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
 * (1863–1920) S. Anski
 * (1868–1936) Maxim Gorky
 * (1871–1919) Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
 * (1880–1921) Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok
 * (1880–1948) Peretz Hirschbein
 * (1888–1962) H. Leivick
 * (1891–1940) Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov
 * (1893–1930) Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky
 * (1894–1941) Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel
 * (1895–1963) Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich Ivanov
 * (1897–1986) Valentin Petrovich Katayev
 * (1899–1994) Leonid Maksimovich Leonov
 * (1904–1941) Aleksandr Nikolayevich Afinogenov

Senegal

 * (1912–1998) Félix Morisseau-Leroy

Serbia

 * (1791–1847) Sima Milutinović Sarajlija
 * (1793–1830) Georgije Magarašević
 * (1806–1956) Jovan Sterija Popović
 * (1818–1903) Matija Ban
 * (1832–1878) Đura Jakšić
 * (1843–1875) Kosta Trifković
 * (1847–1908) Milovan Glišić
 * (1858–1926) Dragutin Ilić
 * (1864–1938) Branislav Nušić
 * (1884–1968) Vojislav Jovanović Marambo
 * (1886–1974) Velimir Živojinović Massuka
 * (1887–1952) Mir-Jam
 * (1888–1969) Toma Smiljanić-Bradina
 * (1895–1976) Vladimir Velmar-Janković
 * (1900–1924) Dušan Vasiljev
 * (1924–1989) Mira Trailović
 * (1928–2009) Danko Popović
 * (1929–2009) Milorad Pavić
 * (1930–1992) Borislav Pekić
 * (1933–2014) Svetlana Velmar-Janković
 * (1938) Gordan Mihić
 * (1938) Svetozar Vlajković
 * (1940) Filip David
 * (1940) Miodrag Novaković
 * (1941–1991) Milan Milišić
 * (1941) Vida Ognjenović
 * (1948) Zorica Jevremović
 * (1948) Dušan Kovačević
 * (1948–2021) Bratislav Petković
 * (1948) Božidar Zečević
 * (1950) Stojan Srdić
 * (1951–2015) Mladen Dražetin
 * (1954) Siniša Kovačević
 * (1954) Radoslav Pavlović
 * (1959) Branislav Pipović
 * (1969) Đorđe Milosavljević
 * (1969) Zoran Stefanović
 * (1970) Branislava Ilić

Slovenia
See also: List of Slovenian playwrights
 * (1831–1887) Fran Levstik
 * (1871–1962) Fran Saleški Finžgar
 * (1876–1918) Ivan Cankar
 * (1878–1949) Oton Župančič
 * (1930–1987) Gregor Strniša
 * (born 1948) Drago Jančar

Spain
See also: List of Spanish language authors
 * (c. 1469–1530) Juan del Encina
 * (1474–1542) Lucas Fernández
 * (1547–1616) Miguel de Cervantes
 * (c. 1550–1610) Juan de la Cueva
 * (1562–1635) Lope de Vega
 * (1569–1631) Guillén de Castro y Bellvís
 * (1569–c. 1644) Feliciana Enríquez de Guzmán
 * (c. 1574–1644) Antonio Mira de Amescua
 * (c. 1575–1648) Tirso de Molina
 * (1587–1650) Luis de Belmonte y Bermúdez
 * (1596–1661) Álvaro Cubillo de Aragón
 * (1600–1681) Pedro Calderón de la Barca
 * (1611–1652) Antonio Coello y Ochoa
 * (1618–1669) Agustín Moreto y Cabaña
 * (1622–1714) Juan Claudio de la Hoz y Mota
 * (1625–1687) Juan Bautista Diamante
 * (1662–1704) Francisco Antonio Bances y López-Candamo
 * (1676–1750) José de Cañizares
 * (1731–1794) Ramón de la Cruz
 * (1734–1787) Vicente Antonio García de la Huerta
 * (1737–1780) Nicolás Fernández de Moratín
 * (1760–1828) Leandro Fernández de Moratín
 * (1787–1862) Francisco Martínez de la Rosa
 * (1793–1861) Antonio Gil y Zárate
 * (1796–1873) Manuel Bretón de los Herreros
 * (1806–1880) Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch y Martínez
 * (1809–1837) Mariano José de Larra y Sánchez de Castro
 * (1813–1884) Antonio García Gutiérrez
 * (1828–1879) Adelardo López de Ayala y Herrera
 * (1832–1916) José Echegaray
 * (1834–1903) Gaspar Núñez de Arce
 * (1863–1917) Joaquín Dicenta y Benedicto
 * (1866–1936) Ramón del Valle-Inclán
 * (1866–1943) Carlos Arniches y Barrera
 * (1866–1954) Jacinto Benavente
 * (1871–1938) Serafín Álvarez Quintero
 * (1873–1944) Joaquín Álvarez Quintero
 * (1874–1947) Manuel Machado
 * (1875–1939) Antonio Machado
 * (1877–1958) Jacinto Grau Delgado
 * (1879–1946) Eduardo Marquina
 * (1881–1936) Pedro Muñoz Seca
 * (1881–1947) Gregorio Martínez Sierra
 * (1897–1975) Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena
 * (1898–1936) Federico García Lorca
 * (1899–1967) Edgar Neville
 * (1901–1952) Enrique Jardiel Poncela
 * (1902–1999) Rafael Alberti
 * (1903–1965) Alejandro Casona
 * (1903–1996) José López Rubio
 * (1905–1977) Miguel Mihura Santos
 * (1916–2000) Antonio Buero Vallejo
 * (born 1932) Fernando Arrabal
 * (1943–2021) Alfonso Vallejo

Catalonia
See also: List of Catalan-language writers
 * (1845–1924) Àngel Guimerà

Sweden
See also: List of Swedish language writers
 * (1849–1912) August Strindberg
 * (1883–1931) Hjalmar Bergman
 * (1891–1974) Pär Lagerkvist
 * (1918–1997) Werner Aspenström
 * (1923–1954) Stig Dagerman
 * (1928–2007) Lars Forssell
 * Ninna Tinsman

Switzerland

 * (1882–1941) James Joyce
 * (1886–1980) Oskar Kokoschka
 * (1911–1986) Fritz Hochwälder
 * (1911–1991) Max Frisch
 * (1921–1990) Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Syria

 * (1835–1902) Abu Khalil Qabbani

Turkey

 * (1850–1904) Sami Frashëri
 * (1867–1950) Pîremêrd
 * (born 1986) Hayati Citaklar

Ukraine

 * (1811–1899) Abraham Dov Ber Gotlober
 * (1840–1908) Abraham Haim Lipke Goldfaden
 * (1853–1909) Jacob Gordin
 * (1871–1913) Lesya Ukrainka
 * (born 1971) Eugenia Chuprina

United Kingdom
See also: List of British playwrights; British playwrights since 1950; List of early-modern British women playwrights

England
See also: List of English writers
 * (c. 1460–1502) Henry Medwall
 * (1495–1563) John Bale
 * (c. 1497–c. 1585) John Heywood
 * (1532–1584) Thomas Norton
 * (1535–1577) George Gascoigne
 * (c. 1553–1606) John Lyly
 * (1558–1592) Robert Greene
 * (1558–1594) Thomas Kyd
 * (c. 1560–1634) George Chapman
 * (1563–1631) Michael Drayton
 * (1564–1593) Christopher Marlowe
 * (1564–1616) William Shakespeare
 * (c. 1570–1641) Thomas Heywood
 * (c. 1572–1632) Thomas Dekker
 * (1572–1637) Ben Jonson
 * (1576–1634) John Marston
 * (1579–1625) John Fletcher
 * (1580–1627) Thomas Middleton
 * (1583–1640) Philip Massinger
 * (c. 1585–1616) Francis Beaumont
 * (c. 1585–after 1639) John Ford
 * (c. 1590–c. 1653) Richard Brome
 * (1606–1668) William Davenant
 * (1631–1700) John Dryden
 * (c. 1635–1691) George Etherege
 * (1640–1689) Aphra Behn
 * (c. 1640–c. 1703) John Crowne
 * (1652–1685) Thomas Otway
 * (c. 1653–1692) Nathaniel Lee
 * (c. 1667–1723) Susannah Centlivre
 * (1670–1729) William Congreve
 * (1671–1757) Colley Cibber
 * (1672–1719) Joseph Addison
 * (c. 1678–1707) George Farquhar
 * (1685–1732) John Gay
 * (1693–1739) George Lillo
 * (c. 1700–1766) William Rufus Chetwood
 * (1707–1754) Henry Fielding
 * (1717–1779) David Garrick
 * (1720–1777) Samuel Foote
 * (1728–1774) Oliver Goldsmith
 * (1732–1794) George Colman the Elder
 * (1732–1811) Richard Cumberland
 * (born 1773) Anna Ross
 * (1784–1862) James Sheridan Knowles
 * (1788–1824) George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (Lord Byron)
 * (1792–1847) Richard Brinsley Peake
 * (1794–1857) William Thomas Moncrieff
 * (1803–1857) Douglas William Jerrold
 * (1803–1873) Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
 * (before 1810–after 1838) Elizabeth Polack
 * (1817–1880) Tom Taylor
 * (1812–1889) Robert Browning
 * (1814–1884) Charles Reade
 * (1836–1911) W. S. Gilbert
 * (1843–1916) Henry James
 * (1848–1914) Sydney Grundy
 * (1851–1929) Henry Arthur Jones
 * (1852–1932) Lady Augusta Gregory (Lady Gregory)
 * (1853–1931) Hall Caine
 * (1859–1927) Jerome K. Jerome
 * (1860–1917) Florence Farr
 * (1860–1937) Sir James Matthew Barrie
 * (1865–1948) Alfred Edward Woodley Mason
 * (1865–1959) Laurence Housman
 * (1866–1945) Mrs Henry de la Pasture
 * (1867–1931) Arnold Bennett
 * (1867–1933) John Galsworthy
 * (1868–1946) Herbert Swears
 * (1869–1909) St. John Emile Clavering Hankin
 * (1877–1946) Harley Granville-Barker
 * (1878–1942) Rudolph Besier
 * (1878–1957) Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (Lord Dunsany)
 * (1878–1967) John Masefield
 * (1881–1913) William Stanley Houghton
 * (1881–1954) Frederick Lonsdale
 * (1882–1937) John Drinkwater
 * (1882–1956) A. A. Milne
 * (1882–1958) Harold Brighouse
 * (1883–1971) St. John Ervine
 * (1884–1915) James Elroy Flecker
 * (1886–1962) Clifford Bax
 * (1886–1980) Oskar Kokoschka
 * (1888–1965) Clemence Dane
 * (1888–1965) T. S. Eliot
 * (1889–1946) John Colton
 * (1890–1976) Agatha Christie
 * (1893–1951) Ivor Novello
 * (1893–1964) Will Scott
 * (1894–1984) J. B. Priestley
 * (1896–1967) Margaret Kennedy
 * (1896–1975) R. C. Sherriff
 * (1899–1973) Noël Coward
 * (1900–1973) Benn W. Levy
 * (1901–1984) Denis Johnston
 * (1902–1961) Edward Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford
 * (1904–1986) Christopher Isherwood
 * (1904–1991) Graham Greene
 * (1907–1973) W. H. Auden
 * (1907–2005) Christopher Fry
 * (1911–1977) Terence Rattigan
 * (1921–1988) Erich Fried
 * (1923–2009) John Mortimer
 * (1924–1995) Robert Bolt
 * (1924–2006) David Campton
 * (1924-2009) Royce Ryton
 * (1925–1994) Alun Owen
 * (1926–1999) Jim Allen
 * (1926–2001) Anthony Shaffer
 * (1926–2016) Peter Shaffer
 * (1927–2017) Ann Jellicoe
 * (1927–2019) Peter Nichols
 * (1928–1996) Frank Marcus
 * (1929–1994) John Osborne
 * (1929–1998) Henry Livings
 * (1930–2008) Harold Pinter
 * (1930–2012) John Arden
 * (1933–1967) Joe Orton
 * (born 1933) Michael Frayn
 * (born 1934) Alan Bennett
 * (born 1934) Edward Bond
 * (born 1934) Wole Soyinka
 * (1936–2008) Simon Gray
 * (born 1937) Tom Stoppard
 * (1938–2011) Shelagh Delaney
 * (born 1939) Alan Ayckbourn
 * (1945–2019) Barrie Keeffe
 * (born 1942) Howard Brenton
 * (born 1947) David Hare
 * (born 1957) Sue Lenier
 * (1971–1999) Sarah Kane
 * (born 1974) Leo Butler

Scotland
See also: List of Scottish dramatists
 * (c. 1490–c. 1555) David Lyndsay
 * (1860–1937) J. M. Barrie
 * (1888–1951) James Bridie
 * (1900–1968) Paul Vincent Carroll
 * (1907–1985) Robert McLellan
 * (1912–2006) Ena Lamont Stewart
 * (1918–1978) Joan Ure
 * (born 1951) Peter May

Wales
See also: List of Welsh writers
 * (1893–1951) Ivor Novello
 * (1925–1994) Alun Owen
 * (1893–1985) Saunders Lewis

United States
See also: List of playwrights from the United States; List of African-American writers; List of Jewish American playwrights
 * (1766–1839) William Dunlap
 * (1784–1842) Samuel Woodworth
 * (1784–1858) James Nelson Barker
 * (1793–1876) John Neal
 * (1806–1854) Robert Montgomery Bird
 * (1810–1858) Robert Taylor Conrad
 * (1819–1870) Anna Cora Mowatt
 * (c. 1820–1890) Dion Boucicault
 * (1823–1890) George H. Boker
 * (1830–1876) George Aiken
 * (1837–1920) William Dean Howells
 * (1838–1899) Augustin Daly
 * (1839–1901) James A. Herne
 * (1840–1908) Abraham Haim Lipke Goldfaden
 * (1842–1894) Steele MacKaye
 * (1842–1908) Bronson Howard
 * (1843–1916) Henry James
 * (1845–1911) Edward Harrigan
 * (1853–1909) Jacob Gordin
 * (1853–1931) David Belasco
 * (1855–1937) William Gillette
 * (1856–1932 or later) Cora Scott Pond Pope
 * (1856-1938) Eva Allen Alberti
 * (1862–1935) Langdon Mitchell
 * (1865–1909) Clyde Fitch
 * (1866–1935) George Pierce Baker
 * (1866–1944) George Ade
 * (1867-1937) Frances Nimmo Greene
 * (1869–1910) William Vaughn Moody
 * (1872–1949) Mary Lewis Langworthy
 * (1874–1938) Zona Gale
 * (1874–1956) Owen Davis
 * (1874–1965) W. Somerset Maugham
 * (1875–1956) Percy MacKaye
 * (1876–1948) Susan Glaspell
 * (1876–1962) Jules Eckert Goodman
 * (1878–1942) George M. Cohan
 * (1878–1952) Ferenc Molnár
 * (1878–1958) Rachel Crothers
 * (1880–1948) Peretz Hirschbein
 * (1880–1957) Sholem Asch
 * (1881–1972) Padraic Colum
 * (1882–1928) Avery Hopwood
 * (1882–1961) Leonhard Frank
 * (1883–1967) Martin Flavin
 * (1885–1940) DuBose Heyward
 * (1885–1942) William Alexander Percy
 * (1886–1958) Zoë Akins
 * (1887–1961) George S. Kaufman
 * (1887–1962) Robinson Jeffers
 * (1887–1968) Edna Ferber
 * (1887–1974) George Kelly
 * (1887–1995) George Abbott
 * (1888–1953) Eugene O'Neill
 * (1888–1959) Maxwell Anderson
 * (1888–1962) H. Leivick
 * (1888–1965) T. S. Eliot
 * (1889–1946) John Colton
 * (1889–1954) John L. Balderston
 * (1889–1968) Howard Lindsay
 * (1890–1980) Marc Connelly
 * (1890–1984) Frances Goodrich
 * (1891–1939) Sidney Howard
 * (1891–1957) Philip Dunning
 * (1891–1966) Anne Nichols
 * (1892–1950) Edna St. Vincent Millay
 * (1892–1966) Elmer Greensfelder
 * (1892–1982) Archibald MacLeish
 * (1893–1966) Russel Crouse
 * (1893–1973) S. N. Behrman
 * (1894–1962) E. E. Cummings
 * (1894–1964) Ben Hecht
 * (1894–1977) John Howard Lawson
 * (1894–1981) Paul Green
 * (1895–1943) Lorenz Hart
 * (1895–1952) Alfred Neumann
 * (1895–1956) Charles MacArthur
 * (1895–1960) Oscar Hammerstein, II
 * (1895–1966) Joseph Fields
 * (1896–1949) Philip Barry
 * (1896–1960) Edwin Justus Mayer
 * (1896–1974) Lawrence Riley
 * (1897–1958) F. Hugh Herbert
 * (1899–1967) Edgar Neville
 * (1899–1980) Elliott Nugent
 * (1900–1998) Julien Green
 * (1901–1969) Jack Kirkland
 * (1901–1984) Denis Johnston
 * (1901–1988) Paul Osborn
 * (1902–1967) Langston Hughes
 * (1902–1967) Joseph Kesselring
 * (1903–1987) Clare Boothe
 * (1904–1961) Moss Hart
 * (1904–1986) Christopher Isherwood
 * (1905–1964) Marc Blitzstein
 * (1905–1984) Lillian Hellman
 * (1906–1963) Clifford Odets
 * (1906–1995) Sidney Kingsley
 * (1907–1973) W. H. Auden
 * (1907–1981) Mary Coyle Chase
 * (1908–1981) William Saroyan
 * (1909–1981) Ketti Frings
 * (1909–1984) Norman Krasna
 * (1910–1961) Antanas Škėma
 * (1911–1983) Tennessee Williams
 * (1911–2004) Jerome Chodorov
 * (1911–2007) Gian Carlo Menotti
 * (1912–1998) Félix Morisseau-Leroy
 * (1912–1999) Garson Kanin
 * (1913–1973) William Inge
 * (1913–2000) N. Richard Nash
 * (1914–2008) William Gibson
 * (1915–2005) Arthur Miller
 * (1914–1956) John La Touche
 * (1917–1970) William Archibald
 * (1917–1967) Carson McCullers
 * (1917–2009) Robert Anderson
 * (1918–1993) Louis O. Coxe
 * (1918–2011) Arthur Laurents
 * (1919–1949) Thomas Heggen
 * (1922–1999) William Alfred
 * (1922–2003) George Axelrod
 * (1922–2006) Jay Presson Allen
 * (1922–2008) Tad Mosel
 * (1923–1981) Paddy Chayefsky
 * (1923–1995) Michael V. Gazzo
 * (1924–1987) James Baldwin
 * (1925–1995) Charles Gordone
 * (1925–2015) Frank D. Gilroy
 * (1927–1998) James Goldman
 * (1927–2018) Neil Simon
 * (1928–2016) Edward Albee
 * (1928–2019) George Herman
 * (born 1929) Jules Feiffer
 * (1930–1965) Lorraine Hansberry
 * (1930–2020) Bruce Jay Friedman
 * (1932–2003) Jack Gelber
 * (1934–2014) Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
 * (1935–2020) Mart Crowley
 * (1937–2021) Arthur Kopit
 * (born 1937) Tina Howe
 * (born 1938) John Guare
 * (born 1938) Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
 * (1938–2017) Janusz Głowacki
 * (1939–2020) Israel Horovitz
 * (1939–2020) Terrence McNally
 * (born 1940) Janet Noble
 * (1943–1987) Charles Ludlam
 * (1943–2017) Sam Shepard
 * (born 1945) Mac Wellman
 * (born 1947) David Mamet
 * (born 1949) Christopher Durang
 * (born 1953) Milcha Sanchez-Scott
 * (born 1956) Tony Kushner
 * (born 1958) Jane Shepard
 * (born 1961) CJ Hopkins
 * (born 1961) Jon Robin Baitz
 * (born 1962) Michael Hollinger
 * (born 1962) Kenneth Lonergan
 * (born 1965) Tracy Letts
 * (born 1965) Laura Pedersen
 * (born 1965) Peter Sagal

Puerto Rico
See also: List of Puerto Rican writers
 * (1783–1873) María Bibiana Benítez
 * (1876–1944) Luis Lloréns Torres
 * (1919–1979) René Marqués
 * (born 1936) Luis Rafael Sánchez
 * (1944–2004) Pedro Pietri
 * (1946–1988) Miguel Piñero
 * (born 1955) José Rivera