Wikipedia:WikiProject Authors/O-Z

This page is part of the Wikiproject on Authors, an effort to compile a global index of writers who have contributed significantly to literature, philosophy and criticism of various arts.

List of Miscellaneous Figures related to History of Literature and Philosophy.

This list has two other parts.


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O

 * Flann O'Brien
 * Sean O'Casey
 * Flannery O'Connor
 * Frank O'Connor
 * Oe No Chisato
 * Kenzaburō Ōe
 * Frank O'Hara (Francis Russell)
 * Dorothea Olkowski
 * Jacqueline Ollivier
 * Charles Olson
 * Onakatomi No Yoshinobu Ason
 * Onasander
 * Michael Ondaatje
 * Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
 * Onesicritus
 * Ono No Komachi
 * Oppian
 * Baroness Emmuska Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josepha Barbara Orczy
 * Origen
 * José Ortega y Gasset
 * Julio Ortega
 * George Orwell (Blair, Eric Arthur)
 * John Osborne
 * Oshikochi No Mitsune
 * Oshima Ryota
 * Otomo No Kuronushi
 * Otomo No Yakamochi
 * Otomo Of Sakanoe
 * Ovid
 * Wilfred Owen

P

 * Eduardo Paz-Martinez
 * Pacuvius
 * Camille Paglia
 * Pai Hsien-yung
 * Thomas Paine
 * Francis Turner Palgrave
 * Hermann Palsson
 * Pamphilus
 * Orhan Pamuk
 * Erwin Panofsky
 * Papias
 * Papyri
 * Paracelsus (Phillippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim)
 * Sergei Paradjanov
 * Ambroise Paré
 * Marquis Vilfredo Frederico Damaso Pareto
 * Robert Ezra Park
 * Francis Parkman
 * Parmenides of Elea
 * Stan Parry
 * A. Parthasarathy
 * Parthenius
 * Eric Partridge
 * Blaise Pascal
 * Fernando del Paso
 * Pier Paolo Pasolini
 * Boris Pasternak
 * Walter Pater
 * Jean Paul Richter
 * Pellaeus Paulinus
 * Pausanias
 * Konstantin Paustovsky
 * Cesare Pavese
 * Milorad Pavic
 * Octavio Paz
 * Thomas Love Peacock
 * George Peele
 * Charles Sanders Peirce
 * William Penn
 * Samuel Pepys
 * Georges Perec
 * Benjamin Peret
 * Ramon Pérez De Ayala
 * Charles Perrault
 * Saint-John Marie René Auguste Alexis Saint-Léger Perse
 * Persius
 * Leo Perutz
 * Fernando Pessoa
 * Peter of Alexandria
 * Sándor Petőfi
 * Petrarch (Petrarca Francesco)
 * Petronius
 * Evgeny Petrov
 * Phaedrus
 * Phileas
 * Philo
 * Philolaus
 * Philostratus The Elder
 * Philostratus The Younger
 * Phoenix
 * Jean Piaget
 * Pierius of Alexandria
 * Boris Pilnyak
 * Pindar
 * Virgilio Piñera
 * Robert Pinsky
 * Harold Pinter
 * Luigi Pirandello
 * Robert M. Pirsig
 * Max Planck
 * Sylvia Plath
 * Plato
 * Andrey Platonov
 * Plautus
 * Ulrich Plenzdorf
 * Pliny The Elder
 * Pliny The Younger
 * Plotinus
 * Plutarch
 * Li Po
 * Edgar Allan Poe
 * Jules Henri Poincaré
 * Marco Polo
 * Polybius
 * Polycarp
 * Juan García Ponce
 * Giuseppe Pontiggia
 * Henrik Pontoppidan
 * Alexander Pope
 * Dumitru Radu Popescu
 * Yevgeny Popov
 * Karl Popper
 * Porphyry
 * Dorothy Porter
 * Jan Potocki
 * Chaim Potok
 * Ezra Pound
 * Michail Yu Preister
 * William Hickling Prescott
 * Jacques Prévert
 * Abbé Prévost
 * Abbé Antoine-François Prévost
 * Caradog Prichard
 * Stephen Prickett
 * John Boynton Priestley
 * Proclus
 * Procopius
 * Propertius
 * Protagoras of Abdera
 * Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
 * Marcel Proust
 * Prudentius
 * Boleslaw Prus
 * Michael Psellus
 * Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
 * Ptolemy
 * Publilius Syrus
 * Manuel Puig
 * Alexander Pushkin
 * Thomas Pynchon
 * Pyrrho of Elis
 * Pythagoras of Samos

Q

 * Sima Qian
 * Nizar Quabbani
 * Salvatore Quasimodo
 * Raymond Queneau
 * Francisco Gomez de Quevedo y Villegas
 * Lee Quinby
 * Willard van Orman Quine
 * Quintilian
 * Quintus Smyrnaeus
 * Horacio Quiroga

R

 * Wilhelm Raabe
 * François Rabelais
 * Jean Racine
 * Ann Radcliffe
 * Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
 * Raymond Radiguet
 * Karl Raimund
 * C. Rajagopalachari
 * Sir Walter Raleigh
 * Sri Ramakrishna
 * A. K. Ramanujan
 * Hastings Rashdall
 * Rudolf Erich Raspe
 * Terence Rattigan
 * Irina Ratushinskaya
 * Satyajit Ray
 * Reardon. B. P.
 * Wilhelm Reich
 * Reichenbach
 * Karl Leonhard Reinhold
 * Erich Maria Remarque
 * Jean Renoir
 * Reposianus
 * Johannes Reuchlin
 * Fritz Reuter
 * Alfonso Reyes
 * Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
 * Charles Reznikoff
 * Gregor von Rezzori
 * Jean Rhys (Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams)
 * Ivor Armstrong Richards
 * Mordecai Richler
 * Paul Ricouer
 * Rainer Maria Rilke
 * Arthur Rimbaud
 * Julian Rios
 * Alain Robbe-Grillet
 * J. M. Roberts
 * Armand Robin
 * Henri-Pierre Roché
 * Second Earl of John Wilmot Rochester
 * Theodore Huebner Roethke
 * Éric Rohmer
 * Romain Rolland
 * Jules Romains
 * Pierre de Ronsard
 * William Roper
 * Roscelin
 * David H. Rosenthal
 * Christina Rossetti
 * Dante Gabriel Rossetti
 * Edmond Rostand
 * Joseph Roth
 * Elizabeth Roudinesco
 * Jean-Jacques Rousseau
 * Raymond Roussel
 * Gabrielle Roy
 * Josiah Royce
 * Rufinus
 * Mevlana Jalaleddin Rumi
 * Johan Ludvig Runeberg
 * John Ruskin
 * Earl Bertrand Arthur William Russell
 * Anatoli Rybakov
 * Gilbert Ryle
 * Ryozen Hoshi

S

 * Pentti Saarikoski
 * Johannes von Saaz
 * Ernesto Sabato
 * Edward Sachau
 * Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
 * Hans Sachs
 * Nelly Sachs
 * Marquis de Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
 * Pinchas Sadeh
 * Sa'di
 * Françoise Sagan (Françoise Quoirez)
 * Dorianne Sager
 * Saigy&
 * Ihara Saikaku
 * Pierre Saint-Amand
 * Charles Saint-Beuve
 * Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
 * Comte de Claude Henri de Rouvroy Saint-Simon
 * Andrei Sakharov
 * Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)
 * Sebastiao Salgado
 * J. D. Salinger
 * Sallust
 * Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
 * Samuel Johnson
 * George Sand (Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin)
 * Carl Sandburg
 * Sanjo In
 * Sasaki Sanmi
 * George Santayana
 * Edward Sapir
 * Sappho
 * José Saramago
 * William Saroyan
 * Nathalie Sarraute (Nathalie Ilyanova Tcherniak)
 * Jean-Paul Sartre
 * Saru Maru
 * Siegfried Sassoon
 * Salvatore Satta
 * Ferdinand de Saussure
 * Walter Landor Savage
 * Alberto Savinio
 * Meyer Schapiro
 * Robert Louis Scharring-Hausen Founding Father of Library Week 1922
 * Max Scheler
 * Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
 * Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
 * August Wilhelm Schlegel
 * Friedrich Schlegel
 * Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher
 * Moritz Schlick
 * Arno Schmidt
 * Arthur Schnitzler
 * Gerhard Gershom Scholem
 * Arthur Schopenhauer
 * Daniel Paul Schreber
 * Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger
 * Bruno Schulz
 * Alfred Schütz
 * Albert Schweitzer
 * Leonardo Sciasia
 * Sir Walter Scott
 * John Duns Scotus
 * Augustin Eugène Scribe
 * Roger Scruton
 * John Searle
 * Ronald Searle
 * Winfried George Maximilian Sebald
 * George Seferis (Giorgios Stylianou Seferiades)
 * Victor Segalen
 * E. G. Seidensticker
 * Jaroslav Seifert
 * Hara Sekitei
 * Aubrey de Sélincourt
 * Wilfrid Stalker Sellars
 * Semonides
 * Jorge Semprun
 * Seneca (Seneca the Younger)
 * Marcus Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
 * Léopold Sédar Senghor
 * Robert William Service
 * Madame de Sévigné (Marie de Rabutin-Chantal)
 * Anna Seward
 * Anne Sexton
 * Sextus Empiricus
 * Pip Seymour
 * Third Earl of Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury
 * William Shakespeare
 * Varlam Shalamov
 * Ntozake Shange
 * Li Shang-yin
 * &#256;di Shankarach&#257;rya
 * Vishnu Sharm&
 * George Bernard Shaw
 * Lao Shê (Shu Sheyou née Qingchun)
 * Mary Shelley
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley
 * Vitaly Shentalinsky
 * Sam Shepard
 * Shepherd Of Hermas
 * Shi Naien
 * Zenkei Shibayama
 * Carol Shields
 * Wang Shifu
 * Masaoka Shiki (Masaoka Tsunenori)
 * Murasaki Shikibu
 * Futabatei Shimei
 * Viktor Shklovsky
 * Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
 * Sei Shonagon
 * Earl Shorriss
 * Tsubouchi Shoyo
 * Shune
 * Evgeny Shvarts
 * J. Sibree
 * Henry Sidgwick
 * Philip Sidney
 * Sidonius
 * Henryk Sienkiewicz
 * Angelus Silesius
 * Italicus Silius
 * Frans Eemil Sillanpää
 * Milan Simecka
 * Charles Simic
 * Georg Simmel
 * Claude Simon
 * Simonides of Amorgos
 * Simonides of Ceos
 * Simplicius
 * Upton Sinclair
 * Isaac Bashevis Singer
 * Charles Hubert Sisson
 * Dame Edith Sitwell
 * C. Sivaramamurti
 * Sjón
 * Joshua James William Skaug
 * Josef Skvorecky
 * Adam Smith
 * R. R. R. Smith
 * Tobias George Smollet
 * Socrates Scholasticus
 * Edith Södergran
 * Larry Soderquist
 * Fyodor Sologub (Feodor Kuzmich Teternikov)
 * Solon
 * Vladimir Solvyov
 * Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
 * Sophocles
 * Villy Sorensen
 * Pitirim Sorokin
 * Natsume Sōseki
 * Robert Southey
 * Wole Soyinka (Akinwande Oluwole)
 * Sozomen
 * Anne Bethel Spencer
 * Herbert Spencer
 * Stephen Spender
 * Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler
 * Edmund Spenser
 * Speusippus
 * Sphaerus
 * Baruch or Benedict de Spinoza
 * Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler
 * Leo Spitzer
 * Madame de Anne Louise Germaine Necker Staël (-Holstein)
 * William Stafford
 * Leslie Stainton
 * Joan Stambaugh
 * Konstantin Stanislavski
 * Henry Morton Stanley (John Rowlands)
 * Joan Stanley-Baker
 * Statius
 * Richard Steele
 * Gertrude Stein
 * John Steinbeck
 * Stendhal (Beyle Henri Marie)
 * Laurence Sterne
 * Lawrence Sterne
 * Stesichorus
 * W. Richard Stevens
 * Wallace Stevens
 * Robert Louis Stevenson
 * Adalbert Stifter
 * Allan Stoekl
 * Henry Scott Stokes
 * Brian Stone
 * Rebecca Stone-Miller
 * Tom Stoppard
 * Theodor Storm
 * Harriet Beecher Stowe
 * Strabo
 * Lytton Strachey
 * Gottfried von Strassburg
 * Johan August Strindberg
 * Arkady Strugatsky
 * Boris Strugatsky
 * Lucien Stryk
 * Preston Sturges
 * Snorri Sturluson
 * Francisco Syrianus Suárez
 * John Suckling (poet)
 * Suetonius
 * Takano Suju
 * Louis Sullivan
 * René François Armand Sully-Prudhomme
 * Sulpitius Severus
 * P'ei Sung-chih
 * Suo No Naishi
 * Kari Suomalainen
 * Earl of Surrey
 * Robert Smith Surtees
 * Patrick Süskind
 * Tom Sutcliffe
 * Italo Svevo
 * Livia Veneziani Svevo
 * Emanuel Swedenborg
 * Dorothy Henry/ Whitelock Sweet
 * Jonathan Swift
 * Algernon Charles Swinburne
 * John Millington Synge
 * Peter Szondi
 * Wislawa Szymborska

T

 * Antonio Tabucchi
 * Tacitus
 * Jean-Yves Tadié
 * Rabindranath Tagore
 * Taiken Monin Horikawa
 * Hippolyte Taine
 * Taira No Kanemori
 * Kyoshi Takahama
 * Shinkichi Takahashi
 * Anton Tammsaare
 * Tang Xianzu
 * Junichiro Tanizaki
 * Sony Labou Tansi
 * Veikko Nyyrikki (Nyrki) Tapiovaara
 * Andrei Arsenievich Tarkovsky
 * Alfred Tarski
 * Torquato Tasso
 * Tatian
 * Ta-ts'in
 * Tawara Machi
 * Jeremy Taylor
 * V. I. Tcherbatsky
 * Alfred, Lord Tennyson
 * Terence
 * Teresa Sanchez Cepeda d'Avila (y Ahumada)
 * Tertullian
 * Abram Tertz (Sinyavsky Andrei)
 * William Makepeace Thackeray
 * Thales of Miletus
 * Theocritus
 * Theodoret
 * Theodotus
 * Theodore Theodorsen
 * Theognis
 * Theognostus of Alexandria
 * Theonas of Alexandria
 * Theophilus of Antioch
 * Theophrastus
 * Paule Thévenin
 * Thomas à Kempis
 * William I. Thomas
 * John M. Thompson
 * Ian Thomson
 * Henry David Thoreau
 * Thrasymachus
 * Thucydides
 * James Thurber
 * Lü Tiancheng
 * Tiberianus
 * Tibullus
 * Ludwig Tieck
 * Georg Henrik Tikkanen
 * Paul Tillich
 * Timon of Phlius
 * Tiruvalluvar
 * Alexis de Tocqueville
 * Ernst Toller
 * J. R. R. Tolkien
 * Vladimir Tolstikov
 * Aleksei Tolstoi
 * Leo Tolstoy
 * Rolf Toman
 * Miguel Torga
 * Michel Tournier
 * Thomas Traherne
 * Georg Trakl
 * Tomas Tranströmer
 * Mary Tregear
 * Michel Tremblay
 * Roland Michel Tremblay
 * Anthony Trollope
 * Leon Trotsky
 * Chrétien de Troyes
 * Pierre Elliot Trudeau
 * François Truffaut
 * Tryphiodorus
 * Wu Tsao
 * Milosz Tserniaski
 * Mao Tse-Tung
 * Yamamoto Tsunetomo
 * Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva
 * Edrisi Ma Tuan-lin
 * Friedebert Tuglas (until 1923 Mikhelson)
 * Mao Tun (Shen Yan-bing b. Shen Dehong)
 * Su Tung-p'o
 * Göran Tunström
 * Ivan Turgenev
 * Alan Türing
 * Arvo Turtiainen
 * Julian Tuwim
 * Mark Twain (Samuel Longhorne Clemens)
 * V. N. Tyazhelov
 * Royall Tyler
 * Tyrtaeus
 * Tristan Tzara
 * Chuang Tzu
 * Lao Tzu
 * Sun Tzu

U

 * Yoshiko Uchida
 * Uda
 * Udaisho Michitsuna No Haha
 * Dubravka Ugreai&#263;
 * Fred Uhlman
 * Valev Uibopuu
 * Ukon
 * Miguel de Unamuno
 * Marie Under
 * Sigrid Undset
 * Jane Urquhart

V

 * Valerius Flaccus
 * Valerius Maximus
 * Paul Valéry
 * Cesar Vallejo
 * V&#257;lmiki
 * Janwillem van de Wetering
 * Vincent Van Gogh
 * Robert Jan Van Pelt
 * Eugene Vance
 * Marcus Terentius Varro
 * Publius Terentius Varro
 * Giorgio Vasari
 * Henry Vaughan
 * Thorstein Veblen
 * Velleius Paterculus
 * Venantius
 * Paul Vercors
 * Aubrey de Vere
 * Earl of Oxford Edward de Vere
 * Giovanni Verga
 * Cornelius Verhoeven
 * Paul Verlaine
 * Geza Vermes
 * Jules Verne
 * Dziga Vertov
 * Tarjei Vesaas
 * Boris Vian
 * Giambattista Vico
 * Victorinus
 * Alfred de Vigny
 * Lauri Viita
 * Geoffrey de Maréchal de Champagne Villehardouin
 * Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
 * François Villon
 * Vincent of Lérins
 * Virgil or Vergil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
 * Paul Virilio
 * Vitruvius
 * Vivekananda (Narendra Datt)
 * Walther von der Vogelweide
 * Vladimir Voinovich
 * Voltaire (b. François Marie Arouet)
 * Kurt Vonnegut
 * Jacobus de Voragine
 * Ivanov Vsevolod
 * Alexander Vvedensky
 * Lev Vygotsky

W

 * Wace
 * Derek Walcott
 * Guido Waldman
 * Shah Wali Allah
 * David Foster Wallace
 * Lew Wallace
 * Georg August Wallin (Yrjö Aukusti Wallin) (Abd al-Wali)
 * Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge
 * Horace Walpole
 * Hugh Walpole
 * Martin Walser
 * Robert Walser
 * Mika Waltari
 * Walther
 * Izaak Walton
 * Robert Penn Warren
 * Jakob Wassermann
 * Charles Watts
 * Evelyn Waugh
 * Max Weber
 * John Webster
 * Wang Wei (8th century poet)
 * Grete Weil
 * Simone Weil
 * Peter Weiss
 * Otfried von Weissenburg
 * Herbert George Wells
 * Franz Werfel
 * Nathanael West (Nathan Weinstein until 1926)
 * Rebecca West
 * Edith Wharton
 * Frederic M. Wheelock
 * Edmund White
 * Elwyn Brooks White
 * Patrick White
 * Alfred North Whitehead
 * John Whiting
 * Walt Whitman
 * Ernst Wiechert
 * Christoph Martin Wieland
 * Elie Wiesel
 * Oscar Wilde
 * Billy Wilder
 * Thornton Wilder
 * W. J. Wilkins
 * Geoffrey Willans
 * William of Ockham
 * Tennessee Williams
 * William Carlos Williams
 * George Wilson Knight
 * Edmund Wilson
 * Robert Anton Wilson
 * Alison Winston
 * John Wisdom
 * Owen Wister
 * Stanis&#322;aw Witkiewicz
 * Stanis&#322;aw Ignacy Witkiewicz a.k.a. Witkacy
 * Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * Christa Wolf
 * Christian Wolff
 * Tatiana Wolff
 * Heinrich Wölfflin
 * Mary Wollstonecraft
 * James Woodall
 * George Woodcock
 * P. G. Wodehouse
 * Virginia Woolf
 * John Woolman
 * William Wordsworth
 * Georg Henrik von Wright
 * Morris Wright
 * Thomas Wyatt
 * William Wycherley
 * John Wyclif

X

 * Xenocrates
 * Xenophanes of Colophon
 * Xenophon
 * Zhang Xianliang
 * Gao Xingjian
 * Can Xue
 * Cao Xueqin
 * Lu Xun

Y

 * Kateb Yacine
 * Yamabe No Akahito
 * Yamatohime
 * Avraham Yarmolinsky
 * Inoue Yasushi
 * Frances Yates
 * John Yau
 * William Butler Yeats
 * Fan Yeh
 * Yevgeny Yevtushenko
 * Kan Ying
 * Shen Yo
 * Robyn Young
 * Yosa Buson
 * Marguerite Yourcenar (Marguerite de Crayencour)
 * Yozei In

Z

 * Lydia Zakharova
 * Yevgeny Zamyatin
 * Cesare Zavattini
 * Ilya Zbarsky
 * Beatriz Zeller
 * Ludwig Zeller
 * Serge A. Zenkovsky
 * Zeno of Citium
 * Zeno of Elea
 * Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal
 * Slavoj Žižek
 * Émile Zola
 * Mikhail Zoshchenko
 * Carl Zuckmayer
 * Louis Zukofsky
 * Stefan Zweig