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List of Miscellaneous Figures related to History of Literature and Philosophy.
- Abd-Ru-Shin
- Abduh, Muhammad
- Abe, Kobo
- Abelard, Peter
- Abunaser (Abu Nasr Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Tarkhan Ibn Awzalagh Al Farabi)
- Achebe, Chinua
- Ackroyd, Peter
- Adair, Gilbert
- Adams, Henry
- Addams, Jane
- Addison, Joseph
- Adler, Alfred
- Adler, Jeremy
- Adler, Mortimer Jerome
- Adomnan of Io
- Adorno, Theodor Lambert Zuidervaart
- Ady, Endre
- Aelfric
- Aeneas Tacticus
- Aeschines
- Aeschylus
- Aesop
- Aetna
- Agamben, Giorgio
- Agnon, Shmuel Yosef (Shmuel Yosef Halevi Czaczkes)
- Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius von Nettsheim
- Ahlqvist, August Engelbrekt
- Aho, Juhani (until 1907 Brofeldt)
- Ai (Florence Anthony)
- Aiken, Conrad Potter
- Äikiä, Armas (Ami Aarto, Viljo Veijo, Liukas Luikku)
- Akhmatova, Anna Andreyevna (Anna Gorenko)
- [[Akhnaten [Amenhotep IV]]]
- Aksyonov, Vassily
- Akutagawa, Ryunosuke
- Al `Amiri, Abu’l Hasan Muhammad Ibn Yusuf
- Al Afghani, Jamal Al Din
- Al Bayyati, 'Abd Al Wahhab
- Al Biruni (Alberuni)
- Al Dawani, Jalal Al Din
- Al Farid, Fakhruddin Iraqi Umar Ibn
- Al Ghazali, Abu Hamid Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Muhammad
- Al Husayn, Abu ‘Ali
- Al Jawayni, Abu’l Ma`ali
- Al Kindi, Abu Yusuf Ya‘qub Ibn Ishaq
- Al Mala'ika, Nazik
- Al Qurtubi
- Al Razi, Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Zakariyya’
- Al Razi, Fakhr Al Din
- Al Sabzawari, Al Hajj Mulla Hadi
- Al Sijistani, Abu Sulayman Muhammad
- Al Suhrawardi, Shihab Al Din Yahya
- Al Tawhidi, Abu Hayyan
- Al Tusi, Khwajah Nasir
- Alain (Chartier, Emile-Auguste)
- Alain-Fournier (Alban, Henri)
- Albee, Edward
- Albert of Saxony
- Alberti, Leon Battista
- Alcaeus
- Alciphron
- Alcmaen of Croton
- Alcman
- Alcott, Louisa May
- Aldhelm, (St.)
- Alegría, Ciro
- Aleichem, Sholom
- Aleixandre, Vicente
- Alexander of Alexandria (St.)
- Alexander of Cappadocia (St.)
- Alexander of Lycopolis (St.)
- Alexander, Michael (tr.)
- Alfred the Great
- Alger, Horatio
- Algren, Nelson
- Al-Hakim, Tawfiq
- Alighieri, Dante
- Allen, Christopher
- Allen, Woody
- Althusser, Louis
- Alvarez, Juan de Yepes y
- Alyngton, Robert
- Amadi, Elechi
- Ambrose (St.)
- Amichai, Yehuda
- Amis, Kingsley
- Ammianus Marcellinus
- Anacreon
- Anaxagoras of Clazomenae
- Anaxarhos
- Anaximander of Miletus
- Anaximenes of Miletus
- Andersch, Alfred
- Andersen, Hans Christian
- Anderson, J. J. (ed.)
- Anderson, Sherwood
- Andocides
- Andreas-Salomé, Lou
- Andric, Ivo
- Annensky, Innokenty Fyodorovich
- Anouilh, Jean
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Antiphon
- Antisthenes
- Antunes, Antonio Lobo
- Aphrahat (St.) (Aphraates)
- Apollinaire, Guillaume
- Apollodorus
- Apollonius Rhodius
- Appelfeld, Aharon
- Appelgren, Anne Marie
- Appian
- Apuleius, Lucius
- Aquinas, Thomas
- Aragon, Louis
- Aratus
- Arcesilaus
- Archelaus of Athens
- Archilochus
- Archimedes
- Arendt, Hannah
- Arhytas
- Ariosto, Ludovico
- Aristides the Philosopher (St.)
- Aristippus
- Ariston
- Aristophanes
- Aristotle
- Aristotle / Barnes, Jonathan (ed.)
- Armah, Ayi Kwei
- Armitage, Simon
- Arnim, Achim von
- Arnobius (St.)
- Arnold, Matthew
- Arp, Jean
- Arrian
- Arrowsmith, William
- Artaud, Antonin
- Aryabhata
- Ascher, Steven & Pincus, Edward
- Asclepiodotus
- Ashariyya
- Ashbery, John
- Asser
- Assis, Machado de
- Asturias, Miguel Angel
- Athanasius (St.)
- Athenaeus
- Athenagoras (St.)
- Attar, Farid Ud-Din
- Attila, József
- Auden, Wystan Hughes
- Aue, Hartmann von
- Augier, Émile
- Augustine of Hippo
- Aurelius, Marcus / Hays, Gregory (tr.)
- Aurobindo, Sri
- Ausonius
- Austen, Jane
- Austin, John Langshaw
- Averroës (Abu’l Walid Muhammad Ibn Rushd)
- Avianus
- Avicebron (Salamo Ben Jehuda Ben Gebirol/Solomon ben Judah Ibn Gabirol)
- Avicenna (Abu 'Ali Al Husain Ibn 'Abd Allah Ibn Sina)
- Awliya, Nizam Ad-Din
- Ayala, Francisco
- Ayckbourn, Alan
- Ayer, Alfred Jules
- Baabel (or Babel), Isaac
- Babbage, Charles
- Babrius
- Bacchylides
- Bachelard, Gaston
- Bachman, Ingeborg
- Bacon, Francis
- Bacon, Roger
- Bagehot, Walter
- Bakunin, Mikhail
- Balázs, Béla
- Baldwin, James
- Ballard, James Graham
- Balzac, Honoré de
- Banville, John
- Baraka, Imanu Amiri (Everett LeRoi Jones)
- Barca, Pedro Calderón de la
- Bardesanes (St.)
- Baricco, Alessandro
- Barlach, Ernst
- Barnabas (St.)
- Barnes, Djuna Chappell
- Barnes, Jonathan (ed.)
- Barnes, Julian
- Barnstone, Willis
- Barth, John
- Barth, Karl
- Barthe, Dona
- Barthelme, Donald
- Barthes, Roland
- Basavanna
- Basham, A. L.
- Basho, Matsuo
- Basil the Great (St.)
- Bassani, Giorgio
- Bataille, Georges
- Bateson, Gregory
- Baudelaire, Charles
- Baudrillard, Jean
- Bauer, Bruno
- Baxter, James Keir
- Baxter, John
- Bayerschmidt, Carl F. & Hollander, Lee M. (ed.)
- Bayle, Pierre
- Bazin, André
- Bazin, Germain
- Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de
- Beaumont, Francis
- Beauvoir, Simone de
- Becker, Jurek
- Beckett, Samuel
- Beckford, William
- Becque, Henri
- Beddoes, Thomas Lovell
- Bede
- Bede / Eddius, etc. / Webb, J. F. & Farmer, D. H. (ed.)
- Beerbohm, Max
- Behan, Brendan Francis
- Behn, Aphra
- Belinskii, Vissarion Grigor'evich
- Bellarmine, Robert
- Bellay, Joachim du
- Bellman, Carl Michael
- Belloc, Hilaire
- Bellos, David
- Bellow, Saul
- Benavente (y Martinez), Jacinto
- Benét, Stephen Vincent
- Bengtsson, Frans Gunnar
- Benjamin, Franklin
- Benjamin, Walter
- Bennett, Enoch Arnold
- Bentham, Jeremy
- Benton, Janetta Rebold
- Bergbom, Kaarlo
- Bergin, Thomas Goddard (tr.)
- Bergman, Ingmar
- Bergson, Henri
- Berkeley, George
- Berlin, Isaiah
- Bernanos, Georges
- Bernard of Clairvaux
- Bernhard, Thomas
- Beroul
- Besant, Annie (tr.)
- Betjeman, John
- Bettelheim Bruno
- Bhandopaday, Bhibuthibhashan
- Bialik, Hayyim Nahman (/Chayim Nachman)
- Biely, Andrey
- Bierce, Ambrose
- Binyan, Liu
- Bion, Wilfred
- Bioy Casares, Adolfo
- Birrell, Anne (ed.)
- Bitov, Andrei
- Björling, Gunnar
- Bjørneboe, Jens
- Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne Martinus
- Blake, William
- Blanche, August Theodor
- Blanchot, Maurice
- Blixen, Karen (Isak Dinesen)
- Bloch, Ernst
- Block, Lawrence
- Blok, Alexander
- Bloom, Harold
- Bloomfield, Leonard
- Bloy, Léon
- Bly, Robert
- Boardman, John
- Boas, Franz
- Boccaccio, Giovanni
- Boehme, Jacob
- Boethius
- Boetius of Dacia
- Boiardo, Matteo Maria
- Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas
- Boldt-Irons, Leslie Anne (ed.)
- Böll, Heinrich
- Bolt, Robert
- Bondanella, Peter
- Borchert, Wolfgang
- Borgen, Johan
- Borges, Jorge Luis
- Borgese, Giuseppe Antonio
- Borhan, Pierre
- Borowski, Tadeusz
- Bossuet, Jacques
- Boswell, James
- Boulle, Pierre
- Bourdieu, Pierre
- Bourgeois, Louise
- Bowles, Jane
- Bowles, Paul
- Boyle, Robert
- Boym, Svetlana
- Braddon, Mary Elizabeth
- Bradlaugh, Charles
- Bradley, Francis Herbert
- Braine, John
- Brecht, Bertolt
- Brentano, Franz Clemens
- Bresson, Robert
- Breton, André
- Bridgman, George B.
- Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme
- Broad, Charlie Dunbar
- Broch, Hermann
- Brod, Max
- Brodsky, Joseph
- Brontë, Anne
- Brontë, Charlotte
- Brontë, Emily
- Brooke, Rupert Chawner
- Brown, Charles Bockden
- Brown, Nicholas J.
- Browne, Thomas
- Browning, Elizabeth Barret
- Browning, Robert
- Bruk, Yakov (ed.)
- Bruno, Giordano
- Brussig, Thomas
- Bryant, William Cullen
- Buber, Martin
- Buchan, John
- Büchner, Georg
- Budge, E. A. Wallis (ed.)
- Bufalino, Gesualdo
- Bukowski, Charles
- Bulfinch, Thomas
- Bulgakov, Mikhail
- Bultmann, Rudolph
- Bunin, Ivan Alekseyevich
- Buñuel, Luis
- Bunyan, John
- Burckhardt, Jacob
- Burgess, Anthony
- Burgess, Glyn (tr.)
- Burke, Edmund
- Burney, Fanny
- Burns, Robert
- Burroughs, William Seward
- Burton, Richard
- Burton, Robert
- Buson, Taniguchi Yosa
- Bussagli, Marco (ed.)
- Butler, Alban
- Butler, Joseph
- Butler, Samuel
- Butor, Michel Marie François
- Bynum, Caroline Walker
- Byron, George Gordon
- Byron, Lord
- Cable, James (tr.)
- Cacciari, Massimo
- Caecilius
- Caedmon
- Caesar, Gaius Julius
- Caius (St.)
- Callicles
- Callimachus
- Callistratus
- Calpurnius Siculus
- Calvin, John
- Calvino, Italo
- Camoens, Luis de
- Campanella, Thomas
- Campion, Thomas
- Camus, Albert
- Canetti, Elias
- Cantor, George
- Capek, Karel
- Capote, Truman
- Cardozo, Abraham Miguel
- Carducci, Giosuè
- Carew, Thomas
- Carey, Peter
- Carlyle, Thomas
- Carnap, Rudolf
- Carné, Marcel
- Carpentier, Alejo
- Carroll, Lewis (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
- Carroll, Robert
- Carter, Howard
- Cartier-Bresson, Henri
- Cary, Joyce
- Casanova, Giacomo
- Casares, Adolfo Bioy
- Cassian, John
- Cassirer, Ernst
- Castiglione, Baldassare, Conte di Novilara
- Castoriadis, Cornelius
- Cather, Willa
- Catullus
- Catullus, Gaius Valerius
- Cavafy, Constantin P. (Konstantin Kavafis)
- Cela (y Trulock), Camilo José
- Celan, Paul
- Celan, Paul (b. Paul Antschel)
- Céline, Louis-Ferdinand
- Cellini, Benvenuto
- Celsus
- Cendrars, Blaise (Frédéric Louis Sauser)
- Cercidas
- Certeau, Michel de
- Cervantes, Miguel Saavedra de
- Césaire, Aimé
- Chadwick, Nora & Dillon, Myles
- Chaplin, Charles
- Chapman, George (tr.)
- Char, René
- Chariton
- Chateaubriand, François-René de
- Chatterton, Thomas
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Chaucer, Geoffrey / Fisher, John (ed.)
- Chekhov, Anton
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
- Ch'en, Mei Yao
- Cheng’en, Wu
- Chernov, Vladimir
- Chernyshevsky, Nikolai
- Chesterton, Gilbert Keith
- Ch'iao, Fang
- Ch'ien, Ssu-ma
- Childers, Erskine
- Chirico, Giorgio de
- Chomei, Kamo no
- Chomsky, Noam
- Christine de Pizan
- Chrysippus
- Chukovskaya, Lydia
- Chu-yi, Po
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Cioran, Emile Michel
- Cixous, Hélène
- Clastres, Pierre
- Claudel, Paul
- Claudian
- Claus, Hugo
- Clausewitz, Karl von
- Cleanthes
- Clegg, Brian
- Clement of Alexandria (St.)
- Clement of Rome (St.)
- Cleveland, John
- Cocteau, Jean
- Codrescu, Andrei
- Coetzee, John M.
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
- Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle
- Collins, Wilkie
- Colluthus
- Colonna, Francesco Paolo
- Columbus, Christopher
- Columella
- Commines, Philippe de
- Commodianus (St.)
- Comnena, Anna
- Compton-Burnett, Ivy
- Comte, Auguste
- Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de
- Confucius
- Congreve, William
- Connoly, Cyril Vernon (Palinarus)
- Conrad, Joseph
- Constant, Benjamin
- Conze, Edward (ed.)
- Cook, James
- Cooley, Charles Horton
- Cooper, James Fenimore
- Copernicus, Nicolas
- Copplestone, Trewin
- Corbett, Jim
- Corinna
- Corneille, Pierre
- Cornelius, Nepos
- Cortázar, Julio
- Couperus, Louis
- Coward, Noel
- Cowley, Abraham
- Cowper, William
- Crane, Hart
- Crane, Stephen
- Crashaw, Richard
- Crates
- Creeley, Robert
- Crèvecoeur, John Hector St. John de (Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur)
- Crevel, René
- Crisp, Quentin
- Croce, Benedetto
- Cronin, Athony
- Crossley-Holland, Kevin (tr.)
- Cruz, Sor Juana Inés de la
- Csáth, Géza
- Culler, Jonathan
- Cummings, Edward Estlin
- Cunningham, Michael
- Curtius, Quintus
- Custine, Astolphe de
- Cynewulf
- Cyprian of Carthage (St.)
- Cyrano de Bergerac, Savien
- Cyril of Alexandria (St.)
- Cyril of Jerusalem (St.)
- D’Alembert, Jean
- Da Vinci, Leonardo
- Dagerman, Stig
- Dalí, Salvador
- Daniel, Samuel
- Danielou, Alain
- D'Annunzio, Gabriel
- Dante Alighieri
- Dao, Bei (Zhao Zhengkai)
- Dasimayya, Devasa
- Daudet, Alphonse
- Daval, Jean-Luc (ed.)
- Davie, Donald
- Davies, Nigel
- Davies, Norman
- Dawood, N. J. (tr.)
- Day-Lewis, Cecil
- Dazai, Osamu (Tsushima Shuji)
- de Galba, Martí Joan
- De Man, Paul
- De Quincey, Thomas
- De Sica, Vittorio
- Debord, Guy
- Defoe, Daniel
- Deledda, Grazia
- Deleuze, Gilles
- Demades
- Demetrius
- Democritus
- Demosthenes
- Deren, Maya
- Derrida, Jacques
- Descartes, René
- Desgabets, Dom Robert
- Dettmar, Kevin J. H.
- Deussen, Paul
- Dewey, John
- Díaz, Bernal
- Dickens, Charles
- Dickinson, Emily
- Dicta Catonis
- Didache (St.)
- Diderot, Denis
- Dilthey, Wilhelm
- Dinarchus
- Dio Cassius
- Dio Chrysostom
- Diodorus Siculus
- Diogenes Laertius
- Diogenes of Apolonnia
- Diogenes of Sinope (St.)
- Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
- Dionysius of Rome (St.)
- Dionysius the Areopagite, St.
- Dionysius the Great (St.)
- Diop, Birago
- Djerassi, Carl
- Döblin, Alfred
- Dobychin, Leonid
- Doderer, Heimito von
- Dombrovsky, Yury
- Dominic (St.)
- Donne, John
- Donner, Jörn Johan
- Doolittle, Hilda
- Doroshinskaya, Y. & Kruchina-Bogdanov, V.
- Dos Passos, John
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Douglass, Frederick
- Doxiades, Apostolos K.
- Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Dreiser, Theodore
- Drought, James
- Dryden, John
- Dubois, William Edward Burghardt
- Duby, Georges (ed.)
- Dukes, Gerry
- Dumas fils, Alexandre
- Dumas, Alexandre
- Dumezil, Georges
- Dunayevskaya, Raya
- Dunbar, James
- Dunbar, Paul Laurence
- Duncan, Robert Edward (b. Edward Howard Duncan)
- Duncan, Thomas G. (ed.)
- Dunn, Stephen
- Duras, Marguerite
- Durkheim, Émile
- Durrell, Lawrence
- Dürrenmatt, Friedrich
- Dwork, Debórah
- Dylan, Thomas
- Eagleton, Terry
- Eaton, Michael
- Ebert, Roger
- Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie, Baronin von
- Eça de Queirós, José Maria
- Echegaray y Eizaguirre, José
- Eckhart, Meister
- Eco, Umberto
- Edel, Leon
- Edwards, Paul (tr.)
- Ehrenburg, Ilya
- Eichendorff, Joseph von
- Einhard / Notker The Stammerer
- Eisenstein, Sergei
- Ekelöf, Gunnar
- Ekfantos
- Ekkehard
- Eliade, Mircea
- Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans)
- Eliot, Thomas Stearns
- Elizabeth I
- Ellison, Ralph Waldo
- Eluard, Paul
- Elytis, Odysseus (Odysseas Alepoudelis)
- Emants, Marcellus
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Empedocles of Acragas
- Enckell, Rabbe
- Engels, Friedrich
- Enheduanna
- Ennius
- Enquist, Pär (or Per) Olov
- Ephraim the Syrian (St.)
- Ephron, Nora
- Epictetus
- Epicurus
- Erasmus, Desiderius
- Eratosthenes
- Ercilla y Zúñiga, Alonso de
- Erdman, Loula Grace
- Erdrich, Louise
- Erigena, John Scotus
- Erofeev, Venedikt
- Erofeev, Victor
- Eschenbach, Wolfram von
- Escher, Maurits Cornelis
- Escobar y Mendoza, Antonio
- Esenin (/Yesenin), Sergei Aleksandrovich
- Eucken, Rudolf Christoph
- Euler, Leonhard
- Eunapius
- Euripides
- Eusebius
- Eusebius of Caesarea (St.)
- Evans-Wentz, Walter Yeeling
- Fagles, Robert (tr.)
- Fahr-Becker, Gabrielle (ed.)
- Fanon, Frantz
- Fante, John
- Fante, John
- Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
- Faulkner, William
- Feinstein, Elaine
- Fellini, Federico
- Fénelon, François de
- Ferenczi, Sandor
- Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
- Feuerbach, Ludwig
- Feyerabend, Paul
- Fichte, Johann Gottlieb
- Ficowski, Jerzy
- Field, D. M.
- Fielding, Henry
- Finkelstein, Norman G.
- Finley, Moses I.
- Firbank, Ronald
- Firdausi (Abu Ol-Qasem Mansur)
- Fisch, Max Harold (tr.)
- Fishburn, Evelyn & Hughes, Psiche
- Fitzgerald, Edward
- Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Key
- Fitzgerald, Robert
- Fitzgerald, Zelda
- Fitzpatrick, Sheila
- Flaubert, Gustave
- Florus
- Fo, Dario
- Focillon, Henri
- Follain, Jean
- Fombeure, Maurice
- Fontane, Theodor
- Fontes, Manuel De Costa
- Ford, Ford Madox
- Ford, John
- Forster, E. M.
- Forster, Edward Morgan
- Foucault, Michel
- France, Anatole (Jacques Anatole François Thibault)
- Frank, Anne
- Frankl, Viktor E.
- Frazer, James George
- Freely, John
- Frege, Gottlob
- Frénaud, André
- Freuchen, Peter
- Freud, Anna
- Freud, Sigmund
- Friedenberg, Olga
- Friedlander, Saul
- Fries, Jakob Friedrich
- Frisch, Max
- Fröding, Gustaf
- Froissart, Jean
- Fromm, Erich
- Frontinus
- Fronto
- Frost, Robert
- Fu, Shen
- Fu, Tu
- Fuentes, Carlos
- Fu-lin
- Fuller, Samuel
- Fussell, Paul
- Füst, Milán
- Gabriel, Marcel
- Gadamer, Hans-Georg
- Gadda, Carlo Emilio
- Gaddis, William
- Galdós, Benito Pérez
- Galeano, Eduardo
- Galen
- Galilei, M. C.
- Galileo, Galilei
- Galsworthy, John
- Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand
- Ganivet y García, Ángel
- Garbor, Arne
- Garção (y Salema), Pedro António Correia
- Garcia, Lorca Federico
- Gardener, Wernher the
- Gardner, Helen
- Gary, Romain (b. Kacew, also wrote as Émile Ajar)
- Gascoigne, George
- Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Gass, William H.
- Gaudí, Antonio
- Gaultier, Théophile
- Gay, Peter
- Gellius
- Genet, Jean
- Gennadius of Marseilles (St.)
- George, Andrew (ed.)
- George, Stefan
- Georges Bataille
- Gibbon, Edward
- Gide, André Paul Guillaume
- Gilbert, Martin
- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
- Gilson, Étienne
- Ginsberg, Allen
- Ginzburg, Eugenia
- Ginzburg, Lydia
- Ginzburg, Semyonovna Ginzburg
- Giono, Jean
- Giovene, Andrea
- Giradoux, Jean
- Giraudoux, Jean
- Gissing, George Robert
- Gjellerup, Karl Adolph
- Gladkov, Fyodor
- Glück, Louise
- Gödel, Kurt
- Godwin, William
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
- Gogol, Nikolai
- Golding, William
- Goldsmith, Oliver
- Gombrich, Ernst
- Gombrowicz, Witold
- Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich
- Goncourt, Edmond Louis Antoine Huot De
- Goncourt, Jules Alfred Huot De
- Gorgias
- Gorky, Maxim
- Gosse, Edmund
- Gourmont, Rémy de
- Gower, John
- Gracián y Morales, Baltasar
- Gracq, Julien
- Gramsci, Antonio
- Grass, Günter
- Grattius
- Graves, Robert
- Gray, Camilla
- Gray, Henry
- Gray, Thomas
- Grayson, Jane
- Green, Henry
- Green, Julien
- Green, Thomas Hill
- Greene, Graham
- Greene, Robert
- Gregory Nazianzen (/of Naziansus) (St.)
- Gregory of Nyssa (St.)
- Gregory Thaumaturgus (St.)
- Gregory the Great, Pope (St.)
- Greimas, Algirdas Julien & Fontanille, Jacques
- Grillparzer, Franz
- Grimm, Jacob
- Grimm, Wilhelm
- Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob von
- Grossmann, Vasily
- Grossmith, George
- Grossmith, Weedon
- Grotius, Hugo
- Gryphius, Andres
- Guanzhong, Luo
- Guattari, Félix
- Guevara, Ernesto 'Che'
- Gunn, Thom
- Guyotat, Pierre
- Gyatso, Palden
- Gysin, Brion
- Habermas, Jürgen
- Hadrian
- Haeckel, Ernst
- Haff, Bergljot Hobæk
- Ha-Levi, Judah
- Hamacher, Werner
- Hamann, Johann Georg
- Hamburger, Michael
- Hamilton, Rita & Perry, Janet (tr.)
- Hammond, Paul
- Hamsun, Knut Pedersen
- Handke, Peter
- Hanff, Helene
- Hanley, James
- Hanqing, Guan
- Hardy, Thomas
- Härkönen, Iivo
- Harris, Cyril M.
- Harris, Mark Jonathan & Oppenheimer, Deborah (eds.)
- Hartley, Leslie Poles
- Hartmann, Nicolai
- Hašek, Jaroslav
- Hass, Robert
- Hatto, A. T.
- Hauptmann, Gerhart Johann Robert
- Havel, Václav
- Hawkes, David (tr.)
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Hayek, Friedrich August von
- Hayward, Max
- Hazlitt, William
- Heaney, Seamus
- Hearn, Lafcadio
- Hebbel, Friedrich
- Hébert, Anne
- Hecht, Ben
- Hedayat, Sadeq/ Sadegh
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
- Heidegger, Martin
- Heidenstam, Carl Gustaf Verner von
- Heine, Heinrich
- Heisenberg, Werner
- Heketas
- Hellaakoski, Aaro
- Heller, Joseph
- Héloise
- Helvetius
- Hemachandra
- Hemingway, Ernest Miller
- Hempel, Carl Gustav
- Hendricks, Rhoda
- Henricks, Robert G. (tr.)
- Henry, O. (William Sydney Porter)
- Hepassos
- Heraclitus of Ephesus
- Herbert of Cherbury
- Herbert, George
- Herder, Johann Gottfried von
- Herillus
- Herling, Gustaw
- Hermas (St.)
- Herodas
- Herodian
- Herodotus
- Herrick, Robert
- Herzen, Alexander
- Hesiod
- Hesse, Hermann
- Hevritos
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