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Abai Qunanbaiuly
•(1845 – 1904)
Abdelkebir Khatibi
•(1938 – 2009)
Abigail Adams
•(1744 – 1818)
Abiodun Oyewole
•(1946 – Present)
Abraham Lincoln
•(1809 – 1865)
Achille Mbembe
•(1957 – Present)
Adam Mickiewicz
•(1798 – 1855)
Adi Shankaracharya
•(788 – Unknown)
Adrienne Rich
•(1929 – 2012)
Aeschylus
•(525 BCE – Unknown)
Afua Hirsch
•(1981 – Present)
Agha Shahid Ali
•(1949 – 2001)
Aimé Césaire
•(1913 – 2008)
Aisha al-Baunniyya
•(1456 – 1517)
Aisha bint Abi Bakr
•(613 – Unknown)
Akwaeke Emezi
•(1987 – Present)
Al-Biruni
•(973 – 1048)
Al-Busiri
•(1213 – 1294)
Al-Farabi
•(872 – 950)
Al-Ghazali
•(1058 – 1111)
Al-Hussain ibn Ali
•(626 – 680)
Al-Jahiz
•(776 – 868)
Al-Khansa
•(575 – 645)
Al-Maarri
•(973 – 1057)
Al-Mutanabbi
•(915 – 965)
Al-Niffari
•(900 – 965)
Alain de Botton
•(1969 – Present)
Albert Camus
•(1913 – 1960)
Albert Einstein
•(1879 – 1955)
Albert Memmi
•(1920 – 2020)
Albert Wendt
•(1939 – Present)
Albertina Sisulu
•(1918 – 2011)
Aldous Huxley
•(1894 – 1963)
Alejandra Pizarnik
•(1936 – 1972)
Alejandro Jodorowsky
•(1929 – Present)
Alek Wek
•(1977 – Present)
Alex La Guma
•(1925 – 1985)
Alexander Herzen
•(1812 – 1870)
Alexis de Tocqueville
•(1805 – 1859)
Alfonsina Storni
•(1892 – 1938)
Alice Walker
•(1944 – Present)
Alicia Garza
•(1981 – Present)
Ama Ata Aidoo
•(1942 – 2023)
Amadou Hampâté Bâ
•(1901 – 1991)
Amin Maalouf
•(1949 – Present)
Aminata Sow Fall
•(1941 – Present)
Aminatta Forna
•(1964 – Present)
Amir Khusrow
•(1253 – 1325)
Amitav Ghosh
•(1956 – Present)
Amparo Dávila
•(1928 – 2020)
Amparo Ochoa
•(1946 – 1994)
Amrita Pritam
•(1919 – 2005)
Anacreon
•(582 BCE – Unknown)
Anaïs Nin
•(1903 – 1977)
Anaxagoras
•(500 BCE – Unknown)
Anaximander
•(610 BCE – Unknown)
Andal
•(815 – Unknown)
Andreas Gryphius
•(1616 – 1664)
Angela Davis
•(1944 – Present)
Ángeles Mastretta
•(1949 – Present)
Angélique Kidjo
•(1960 – Present)
Anita Desai
•(1937 – Present)
Anna Akhmatova
•(1889 – 1966)
Anna Komnene
•(1083 – 1153)
Anne Frank
•(1929 – 1945)
Anton Chekhov
•(1860 – 1904)
Aristotle
•(384 BCE – Unknown)
Armando Valladares
•(1937 – Present)
Armonía Somers
•(1914 – 1994)
Arthur Schopenhauer
•(1788 – 1860)
Arundhati Roy
•(1961 – Present)
Ashoka
•(304 BCE – Unknown)
Assata Shakur
•(1947 – Present)
Assia Djebar
•(1936 – 2015)
Audre Lorde
•(1934 – 1992)
Audrey Hepburn
•(1929 – 1993)
August Strindberg
•(1849 – 1912)
Aung San Suu Kyi
•(1945 – Present)
Ava DuVernay
•(1972 – Present)
Ayad Akhtar
•(1970 – Present)
Ayi Kwei Armah
•(1939 – Present)
B.R. Ambedkar
•(1891 – 1956)
Ba Jin
•(1904 – 2005)
Babe Ruth
•(1895 – 1948)
Bahinabai Chaudhari
•(1880 – 1951)
Ban Ki-moon
•(1944 – Present)
Barack Obama
•(1961 – Present)
Baruch Spinoza
•(1632 – 1677)
Baybars
•(1223 – 1277)
Bayram Khan
•(1504 – 1561)
Begum Rokeya
•(1880 – 1932)
Bell Hooks
•(1952 – 2021)
Benjamin Franklin
•(1706 – 1790)
Benvenuto Cellini
•(1500 – 1571)
Bernardine Evaristo
•(1959 – Present)
Bertrand Russell
•(1872 – 1970)
Bessie Head
•(1937 – 1986)
Betty Friedan
•(1921 – 2006)
Betty White
•(1922 – 2021)
Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
•(1981 – Present)
Bhagavad Gita
•(400 BCE – Unknown)
Bibi Hayati
•(1800 – 1853)
Bienvenido Santos
•(1911 – 1996)
Bill Gates
•(1955 – Present)
Birago Diop
•(1906 – 1989)
Biyi Bandele
•(1967 – 2022)
Blaise Pascal
•(1623 – 1662)
Bob Marley
•(1945 – 1981)
Bohumil Hrabal
•(1914 – 1997)
Bolesław Prus
•(1847 – 1912)
Boris Pasternak
•(1890 – 1960)
Boris Pilnyak
•(1894 – 1938)
Bozoma Saint John
•(1977 – Present)
Brené Brown
•(1965 – Present)
Brian Tracy
•(1944 – Present)
Bruce Lee
•(1940 – 1973)
Buchi Emecheta
•(1944 – 2017)
Burna Boy
•(1991 – Present)
C.L.R. James
•(1901 – 1989)
C.S. Lewis
•(1898 – 1963)
Carl Jung
•(1875 – 1961)
Carl Sagan
•(1934 – 1996)
Carl Sandburg
•(1878 – 1967)
Carlos Bulosan
•(1913 – 1956)
Carlos Fuentes
•(1928 – 2012)
Carmen Naranjo
•(1928 – 2012)
Celeste
•(1994 – Present)
Chandogya Upanishad
•(800 BCE – Unknown)
Charles Dickens
•(1812 – 1870)
Charlotte Brontë
•(1816 – 1855)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
•(1977 – Present)
Chin Peng
•(1924 – 2013)
Chingiz Aitmatov
•(1928 – 2008)
Chinua Achebe
•(1930 – 2013)
Chiung Yao
•(1938 – Present)
Christine de Pizan
•(1364 – 1430)
Cicely Tyson
•(1924 – 2021)
Cicero
•(106 BCE – Unknown)
Claribel Alegría
•(1924 – 2018)
Clarice Lispector
•(1920 – 1977)
Claudia Rankine
•(1963 – Present)
Colette
•(1873 – 1954)
Confucius
•(551 BCE – Unknown)
Coral Bracho
•(1951 – Present)
Cristina Peri Rossi
•(1941 – Present)
Czesław Miłosz
•(1911 – 2004)
Daisaku Ikeda
•(1928 – 2023)
Dalai Lama (14th)
•(1935 – Present)
Dale Carnegie
•(1888 – 1955)
Dambudzo Marechera
•(1952 – 1987)
Dante Alighieri
•(1265 – 1321)
Dante Alighieri
•(1265 – 1321)
David Hume
•(1711 – 1776)
Davido
•(1992 – Present)
Delia Domínguez
•(1931 – Present)
Delmira Agustini
•(1886 – 1914)
Democritus
•(460 BCE – Unknown)
Demosthenes
•(384 BCE – Unknown)
Denis Diderot
•(1713 – 1784)
Denzel Washington
•(1954 – Present)
Derek Walcott
•(1930 – 2017)
Desiderius Erasmus
•(1466 – 1536)
Desmond Tutu
•(1931 – 2021)
Diamela Eltit
•(1949 – Present)
Ding Ling
•(1904 – 1986)
Dionne Brand
•(1953 – Present)
Dolly Parton
•(1946 – Present)
Doreen Baingana
•(1966 – Present)
Doris Lessing
•(1919 – 2013)
Dorothy Height
•(1912 – 2010)
Dorothy Parker
•(1893 – 1967)
Dr. Seuss
•(1904 – 1991)
Du Fu
•(712 – Unknown)
Dulce María Loynaz
•(1902 – 1997)
E.E. Cummings
•(1894 – 1962)
Earl Lovelace
•(1935 – Present)
Edgar Allan Poe
•(1809 – 1849)
Edith Cowan
•(1861 – 1932)
Edith Tiempo
•(1919 – 2011)
Edith Wharton
•(1862 – 1937)
Édouard Glissant
•(1928 – 2011)
Eduardo Galeano
•(1940 – 2015)
Edvard Grieg
•(1843 – 1907)
Edwidge Danticat
•(1969 – Present)
Eihei Dogen
•(1200 – 1253)
El Anatsui
•(1944 – Present)
Eleanor Roosevelt
•(1884 – 1962)
Elena Garro
•(1916 – 1998)
Elena Poniatowska
•(1932 – Present)
Elias Canetti
•(1905 – 1994)
Elif Shafak
•(1971 – Present)
Elizabeth Bishop
•(1911 – 1979)
Elizabeth Blackwell
•(1821 – 1910)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
•(1815 – 1902)
Elizabeth Gaskell
•(1810 – 1865)
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
•(1938 – Present)
Elon Musk
•(1971 – Present)
Emanuel Swedenborg
•(1688 – 1772)
Emily Brontë
•(1818 – 1848)
Emily Dickinson
•(1830 – 1886)
Emperor Menelik II
•(1844 – 1913)
Endre Ady
•(1877 – 1919)
Epeli Hau'ofa
•(1939 – 2009)
Epictetus
•(50 – Unknown)
Erich Fromm
•(1900 – 1980)
Erma Bombeck
•(1927 – 1996)
Ernest Hemingway
•(1899 – 1961)
Erykah Badu
•(1971 – Present)
Esi Edugyan
•(1978 – Present)
Eugenio Montale
•(1896 – 1981)
Eunice de Souza
•(1940 – 2017)
Euripides
•(480 BCE – Unknown)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
•(1896 – 1940)
Faiz Ahmad Faiz
•(1911 – 1984)
Farid ud-Din Attar
•(1145 – 1221)
Fatima Bhutto
•(1982 – Present)
Fatima Mernissi
•(1940 – 2015)
Federico García Lorca
•(1898 – 1936)
Fela Kuti
•(1938 – 1997)
Fernando Pessoa
•(1888 – 1935)
Ferreira Gullar
•(1930 – 2016)
Flora Nwapa
•(1931 – 1993)
Florence Nightingale
•(1820 – 1910)
Francesco Petrarch
•(1304 – 1374)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
•(1882 – 1945)
Frantz Fanon
•(1925 – 1961)
Franz Kafka
•(1883 – 1924)
Frederick Douglass
•(1818 – 1895)
Frida Kahlo
•(1907 – 1954)
Friedrich Nietzsche
•(1844 – 1900)
Friedrich Schiller
•(1759 – 1805)
Fuzuli
•(1494 – 1556)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
•(1821 – 1881)
Gabor Maté
•(1944 – Present)
Gabriel García Márquez
•(1927 – 2014)
Gabriela Mistral
•(1889 – 1957)
Galileo Galilei
•(1564 – 1642)
Gautama Buddha
•(563 BCE – Unknown)
Gcina Mhlophe
•(1958 – Present)
George Bernard Shaw
•(1856 – 1950)
George Carlin
•(1937 – 2008)
George Eliot
•(1819 – 1880)
George Lamming
•(1927 – 2022)
George Orwell
•(1903 – 1950)
George Sand
•(1804 – 1876)
George Washington
•(1732 – 1799)
Germaine de Staël
•(1766 – 1817)
Giambattista Vico
•(1668 – 1744)
Gioconda Belli
•(1948 – Present)
Giordano Bruno
•(1548 – 1600)
Giorgio Vasari
•(1511 – 1574)
Giovanni Boccaccio
•(1313 – 1375)
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
•(1463 – 1494)
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
•(1463 – 1494)
Gloria Anzaldúa
•(1942 – 2004)
Gloria Steinem
•(1934 – Present)
Goenawan Mohamad
•(1941 – Present)
Golda Meir
•(1898 – 1978)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
•(1646 – 1716)
Graça Machel
•(1945 – Present)
Grace Nichols
•(1950 – Present)
Grace Ogot
•(1930 – 2015)
Griselda Gambaro
•(1928 – Present)
Groucho Marx
•(1890 – 1977)
Gustave Flaubert
•(1821 – 1880)
Gyula Illyés
•(1902 – 1983)
H.G. Wells
•(1866 – 1946)
Hafiz
•(1315 – 1390)
Haile Selassie
•(1892 – 1975)
Han Feizi
•(280 BCE – 233 BCE)
Han Kang
•(1970 – Present)
Han Shan
•(750 – Unknown)
Hannah Arendt
•(1906 – 1975)
Hans Christian Andersen
•(1805 – 1875)
Hanya Yanagihara
•(1974 – Present)
Harper Lee
•(1926 – 2016)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
•(1811 – 1896)
Harriet Tubman
•(1822 – 1913)
Haruki Murakami
•(1949 – Present)
Haunani-Kay Trask
•(1949 – 2021)
Helen Keller
•(1880 – 1968)
Henrik Ibsen
•(1828 – 1906)
Henry David Thoreau
•(1817 – 1862)
Heraclitus
•(535 BCE – Unknown)
Herbert Marcuse
•(1898 – 1979)
Herodotus
•(484 BCE – Unknown)
Hesiod
•(750 BCE – Unknown)
Hildegard of Bingen
•(1098 – 1179)
Hisham Matar
•(1970 – Present)
Ho Chi Minh
•(1890 – 1969)
Homer
•(750 BCE – Unknown)
Hone Tuwhare
•(1922 – 2008)
Honoré de Balzac
•(1799 – 1850)
Horace
•(65 BCE – Unknown)
Hypatia of Alexandria
•(370 BCE – Unknown)
ʻInapo Faatauvaa
•(1975 – Present)
I Ching
•(1000 BCE – Unknown)
Ibn Arabi
•(1165 – 1240)
Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari
•(1250 – 1309)
Ibn Battuta
•(1304 – 1368)
Ibn Hazm
•(994 – 1064)
Ibn Khaldun
•(1332 – 1406)
Ibn Rushd
•(1126 – 1198)
Ibn Sina
•(980 – 1037)
Ibn Tufayl
•(1105 – 1185)
Ibrahim al-Koni
•(1948 – Present)
Ibrahim El-Salahi
•(1930 – Present)
Ifi Amadiume
•(1947 – Present)
Ikkyu Sojun
•(1394 – 1481)
Immanuel Kant
•(1724 – 1804)
Imre Kertész
•(1929 – 2016)
Indira Gandhi
•(1917 – 1984)
Indra Nooyi
•(1955 – Present)
Ingeborg Bachmann
•(1926 – 1973)
Isaac Babel
•(1894 – 1940)
Isabel Allende
•(1942 – Present)
Ismat Chughtai
•(1915 – 1991)
Ivan Turgenev
•(1818 – 1883)
Ivo Andrić
•(1892 – 1975)
J.R.R. Tolkien
•(1892 – 1973)
Jacinda Ardern
•(1980 – Present)
Jack Ma
•(1964 – Present)
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
•(1207 – 1273)
Jamaica Kincaid
•(1949 – Present)
James Baldwin
•(1924 – 1987)
James Joyce
•(1882 – 1941)
Jami
•(1414 – 1492)
Jane Austen
•(1775 – 1817)
Jane Goodall
•(1934 – Present)
Jaroslav Seifert
•(1901 – 1986)
Jay-Z
•(1969 – Present)
Jean Rhys
•(1890 – 1979)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
•(1712 – 1778)
Jean-Paul Sartre
•(1905 – 1980)
Jeff Bezos
•(1964 – Present)
Jenny Zhang
•(1983 – Present)
Jerry Seinfeld
•(1954 – Present)
Jesmyn Ward
•(1977 – Present)
Jessica Abel
•(1969 – Present)
Jessica Hagedorn
•(1949 – Present)
Jhumpa Lahiri
•(1967 – Present)
Jim Carrey
•(1962 – Present)
Jim Rohn
•(1930 – 2009)
Joan Didion
•(1934 – 2021)
Johann Gottfried Herder
•(1744 – 1803)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
•(1749 – 1832)
John C. Maxwell
•(1947 – Present)
John Dewey
•(1859 – 1952)
John F. Kennedy
•(1917 – 1963)
John Keats
•(1795 – 1821)
John Lennon
•(1940 – 1980)
John Locke
•(1632 – 1704)
John Milton
•(1608 – 11)
John Milton
•(1608 – 1674)
John Steinbeck
•(1902 – 1968)
John Stuart Mill
•(1806 – 1873)
Jomo Kenyatta
•(1897 – 1978)
Jorge Luis Borges
•(1899 – 1986)
José Martí
•(1853 – 1895)
José Rizal
•(1861 – 1896)
Joseph Campbell
•(1904 – 1987)
Joseph Zobel
•(1915 – 2006)
Juan José Saer
•(1937 – 2005)
Juan Luis Vives
•(1493 – 1540)
Juan Rulfo
•(1917 – 1986)
Juan Villoro
•(1956 – Present)
Juana de Ibarbourou
•(1892 – 1979)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
•(1952 – 2016)
Judith Rodríguez
•(1943 – Present)
Julia de Burgos
•(1914 – 1953)
Julio Cortázar
•(1914 – 1984)
Junot Díaz
•(1968 – Present)
K. Sello Duiker
•(1974 – 2005)
Ka'b ibn Zuhayr
•(580 – 645)
Kabir
•(1440 – Unknown)
Kahlil Gibran
•(1883 – 1931)
Kahlil Gibran
•(1883 – 1931)
Kamau Brathwaite
•(1930 – 2020)
Karel Havlíček Borovský
•(1821 – 1856)
Karl Marx
•(1818 – 1883)
Kate Chopin
•(1850 – 1904)
Kautilya
•(350 BCE – Unknown)
Kazi Nazrul Islam
•(1899 – 1976)
Keanu Reeves
•(1964 – Present)
Kehinde Wiley
•(1977 – Present)
Kemi Adetiba
•(1979 – Present)
Kendrick Lamar
•(1987 – Present)
Keri Hulme
•(1947 – 2023)
Knut Hamsun
•(1859 – 1952)
Kobayashi Issa
•(1763 – 1828)
Kobe Bryant
•(1978 – 2020)
Kofi Awoonor
•(1935 – 2013)
Kurt Vonnegut
•(1922 – 2007)
Kwame Alexander
•(1968 – Present)
Kwame Nkrumah
•(1909 – 1972)
Lady Gaga
•(1986 – Present)
Lal Ded
•(1320 – Unknown)
Langston Hughes
•(1902 – 1967)
Lao Tzu
•(600 BCE – Unknown)
Laozi
•(601 BCE – Unknown)
László Krasznahorkai
•(1954 – Present)
Laura Esquivel
•(1950 – Present)
Lauryn Hill
•(1975 – Present)
Layla al-Akhyaliyya
•(660 – 700)
Lee Kuan Yew
•(1923 – 2015)
Leila Ahmed
•(1940 – Present)
Leo Africanus
•(1494 – Unknown)
Leo Tolstoy
•(1828 – 1910)
Leonardo da Vinci
•(1452 – 1519)
Léopold Sédar Senghor
•(1906 – 2001)
Leymah Gbowee
•(1972 – Present)
Li Bai
•(701 – Unknown)
Liezi
•(400 BCE – Unknown)
Lord Byron
•(1788 – 1824)
Lorraine Hansberry
•(1930 – 1965)
Louisa May Alcott
•(1832 – 1888)
Lu Xun
•(1881 – 1936)
Lucretia Mott
•(1793 – 1880)
Lucretius
•(99 BCE – Unknown)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
•(1889 – 1951)
Luís de Camões
•(1524 – 1580)
Luisa Valenzuela
•(1938 – Present)
Lupita Nyong'o
•(1983 – Present)
Lya Luft
•(1938 – 2015)
M. NourbeSe Philip
•(1947 – Present)
M. Scott Peck
•(1936 – 2005)
Maaza Mengiste
•(1971 – Present)
Madeleine Thien
•(1974 – Present)
Magda Szabó
•(1917 – 2007)
Maggie Nelson
•(1973 – Present)
Mahadevi Varma
•(1907 – 1987)
Mahasweta Devi
•(1926 – 2016)
Mahatma Gandhi
•(1869 – 1948)
Mahmoud Darwish
•(1941 – 2008)
Mahmud Shabistari
•(1288 – 1340)
Mahsati Ganjavi
•(1089 – 1159)
Maimonides
•(1138 – 1204)
Maimouna Youssef
•(1980 – Present)
Malala Yousafzai
•(1997 – Present)
Malcolm X
•(1925 – 1965)
Manjula Padmanabhan
•(1953 – Present)
Manulani Aluli Meyer
•(1962 – Present)
Marcel Proust
•(1871 – 1922)
Marcus Aurelius
•(121 – 180)
Margaret Fuller
•(1810 – 1850)
Margaret Mead
•(1901 – 1978)
Marguerite Duras
•(1914 – 1996)
Marguerite Porete
Maria Dąbrowska
•(1889 – 1965)
María Luisa Bombal
•(1910 – 1980)
Mariama Bâ
•(1929 – 1981)
Marie Curie
•(1867 – 1934)
Marie de Gournay
•(1565 – 1645)
Marilyn Monroe
•(1926 – 1962)
Marina Tsvetaeva
•(1892 – 1941)
Mario Benedetti
•(1920 – 2009)
Mario Vargas Llosa
•(1936 – Present)
Marjorie Agosín
•(1955 – Present)
Mark Twain
•(1835 – 1910)
Mark Zuckerberg
•(1984 – Present)
Marquis de Condorcet
•(1743 – 1794)
Marta Traba
•(1930 – 1983)
Martin Luther King Jr.
•(1929 – 1968)
Mary Astell
•(1666 – 1731)
Mary McLeod Bethune
•(1875 – 1955)
Mary Oliver
•(1935 – 2019)
Mary Wollstonecraft
•(1759 – 1797)
Maryse Condé
•(1934 – 2024)
Matsuo Basho
•(1644 – 1694)
Māui Pōmare
•(1875 – 1930)
Maxim Gorky
•(1868 – 1936)
Maya Angelou
•(1928 – 2014)
Mayotte Capécia
•(1916 – 1953)
Mechthild of Magdeburg
•(1207 – Unknown)
Meena Alexander
•(1951 – 2018)
Mekatilili wa Menza
•(1840 – 1924)
Mencius
•(372 BCE – Unknown)
Michael Anthony
•(1930 – Present)
Michael Jordan
•(1963 – Present)
Michael Servetus
•(1511 – 1553)
Michel de Montaigne
•(1533 – 1592)
Michelle Cliff
•(1946 – 2016)
Michelle Obama
•(1964 – Present)
Mihri Hatun
•(1460 – 1512)
Mikhail Bulgakov
•(1891 – 1940)
Mikhail Sholokhov
•(1905 – 1984)
Milan Kundera
•(1929 – 2023)
Mirabai
•(1498 – Unknown)
Miriam Makeba
•(1932 – 2008)
Miriam Tlali
•(1933 – 2017)
Mirza Ghalib
•(1797 – 1869)
Missy Elliott
•(1971 – Present)
Mitch Hedberg
•(1968 – 2005)
Mo Ibrahim
•(1946 – Present)
Mohsin Hamid
•(1971 – Present)
Montesquieu
•(1689 – 1755)
Morgan Freeman
•(1937 – Present)
Mother Teresa
•(1910 – 1997)
Muhammad Ali
•(1942 – 2016)
Murasaki Shikibu
•(973 – Unknown)
Mustafa Safi al-Din al-Tughra'i
•(1061 – 1121)
Nachman of Breslov
•(1772 – 1810)
Nadezhda Mandelstam
•(1899 – 1980)
Nadine Gordimer
•(1923 – 2014)
Nagarjuna
•(150 – Unknown)
Naguib Mahfouz
•(1911 – 2006)
Namdeo Dhondo Mahanor
•(1942 – 2022)
Naomi Campbell
•(1970 – Present)
Naomi Klein
•(1970 – Present)
Napoleon Hill
•(1883 – 1970)
Nasreddin Hodja
•(1208 – 1285)
Nawal El Saadawi
•(1931 – 2021)
Nayantara Sahgal
•(1927 – Present)
Nef'i
•(1572 – 1635)
Neil deGrasse Tyson
•(1958 – Present)
Nelson Mandela
•(1918 – 2013)
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
•(1938 – Present)
Niccolò Machiavelli
•(1469 – 1527)
Niccolò Machiavelli
•(1469 – 1527)
Nick Joaquin
•(1917 – 2004)
Nicki Minaj
•(1982 – Present)
Nikita Gill
•(1987 – Present)
Nina Simone
•(1933 – 2003)
Nizami Ganjavi
•(1141 – 1209)
Njinga Mbande
•(1583 – 1663)
Nnedi Okofor
•(1974 – Present)
Nnenna Freelon
•(1954 – Present)
Noname
•(1991 – Present)
Nuruddin Farah
•(1945 – Present)
Ocean Vuong
•(1988 – Present)
Octavia Butler
•(1947 – 2006)
Octavio Paz
•(1914 – 1998)
Okot p'Bitek
•(1931 – 1982)
Olga Tokarczuk
•(1962 – Present)
Olive Schreiner
•(1855 – 1920)
Olive Senior
•(1941 – Present)
Olumide Soyombo
•(1982 – Present)
Olympe de Gouges
•(1748 – 1793)
Omar Khayyam
•(1048 – 1131)
Oprah Winfrey
•(1954 – Present)
Oscar Wilde
•(1854 – 1900)
Osip Mandelstam
•(1891 – 1938)
Ousmane Sembène
•(1923 – 2007)
Ovid
•(43 BCE – 17)
Pablo Neruda
•(1904 – 1973)
Papahurihia
Parmenides
•(515 BCE – Unknown)
Patrice Lumumba
•(1925 – 1961)
Patricia Grace
•(1937 – Present)
Patricia Hill Collins
•(1948 – Present)
Paulo Coelho
•(1947 – Present)
Paulo Freire
•(1921 – 1997)
Pearl S. Buck
•(1892 – 1973)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
•(1792 – 1822)
Peter Abrahams
•(1919 – 2017)
Pham Thi Hoai
•(1960 – Present)
Pierre Bourdieu
•(1930 – 2002)
Pindar
•(518 BCE – Unknown)
Plato
•(427 BCE – Unknown)
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
•(1925 – 2006)
Premchand
•(1880 – 1936)
Ptahhotep
•(2450 BCE – Unknown)
Pythagoras
•(570 BCE – Unknown)
Qiu Jin
•(1875 – 1907)
Queen Elizabeth II
•(1926 – 2022)
Queen Nzinga
•(1583 – 1663)
R. Zamora Linmark
•(1968 – Present)
Rabia al-Adawiyya
•(717 – 801)
Rabindranath Tagore
•(1861 – 1941)
Rainer Maria Rilke
•(1875 – 1926)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
•(1803 – 1882)
Reinaldo Arenas
•(1943 – 1990)
René Descartes
•(1596 – 1650)
Richard Feynman
•(1918 – 1988)
Richard Turere
•(2000 – Present)
Richard Wright
•(1908 – 1960)
Rigoberta Menchú
•(1959 – Present)
Rihanna
•(1988 – Present)
Roald Dahl
•(1916 – 1990)
Robert Frost
•(1874 – 1963)
Roberto Bolaño
•(1953 – 2003)
Robin Williams
•(1951 – 2014)
Rosa Montero
•(1951 – Present)
Rosa Parks
•(1913 – 2005)
Rosario Castellanos
•(1925 – 1974)
Rosario Ferré
•(1938 – 2016)
Roseanne A. Brown
•(1994 – Present)
Roxane Gay
•(1974 – Present)
Rubén Darío
•(1867 – 1916)
Rumi
•(1207 – 1273)
Rupi Kaur
•(1992 – Present)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
•(1933 – 2020)
Ryokan
•(1758 – 1831)
Saadat Hasan Manto
•(1912 – 1955)
Saadi Shirazi
•(1210 – 1292)
Sade Adu
•(1959 – Present)
Safi al-Din al-Hilli
•(1278 – 1349)
Saidiya Hartman
•(1964 – Present)
Samori Touré
•(1830 – 1900)
Samuel Beckett
•(1906 – 1989)
Sándor Petőfi
•(1823 – 1849)
Sandra Cisneros
•(1954 – Present)
Sappho
•(630 BCE – Unknown)
Sara Suleri
•(1953 – Present)
Sarojini Naidu
•(1879 – 1949)
Sei Shonagon
•(966 – Unknown)
Seneca
•(4 BCE – 65)
Serena Williams
•(1981 – Present)
Seydou Badian Kouyaté
•(1928 – 2021)
Shams-i-Tabrizi
•(1185 – 1248)
Sheryl Sandberg
•(1969 – Present)
Sholem Aleichem
•(1859 – 1916)
Sia Figiel
•(1967 – Present)
Siddhartha Gautama
•(563 BCE – Unknown)
Sigmund Freud
•(1856 – 1939)
Silvia Molina
•(1946 – Present)
Simon Sinek
•(1973 – Present)
Simone Biles
•(1997 – Present)
Simone de Beauvoir
•(1908 – 1986)
Simone Weil
•(1909 – 1943)
Sin-leqi-unninni
•(1200 BCE – Unknown)
Siosaia Taufa
•(1978 – Present)
Socrates
•(470 BCE – Unknown)
Sojourner Truth
•(1797 – 1883)
Sony Labou Tansi
•(1947 – 1995)
Sophocles
•(497 BCE – Unknown)
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
•(1651 – 1695)
Søren Kierkegaard
•(1813 – 1855)
Stephen Hawking
•(1942 – 2018)
Stephen King
•(1947 – Present)
Steve Biko
•(1946 – 1977)
Steve Jobs
•(1955 – 2011)
Stormzy
•(1993 – Present)
Subcomandante Marcos
•(1957 – Present)
Subramania Bharati
•(1882 – 1921)
Sukarno
•(1901 – 1970)
Sultan Walad
•(1226 – 1312)
Sun Tzu
•(544 BCE – Unknown)
Sundiata Keita
•(1217 – Unknown)
Susan B. Anthony
•(1820 – 1906)
Susan Sontag
•(1933 – 2004)
Suzanne Necker
•(1739 – 1794)
Swami Vivekananda
•(1863 – 1902)
Sylvia Plath
•(1932 – 1963)
T.S. Eliot
•(1888 – 1965)
Tahar Ben Jelloun
•(1944 – Present)
Taiye Selasi
•(1979 – Present)
Taslima Nasrin
•(1962 – Present)
Tāwini Tetuanui
•(1980 – Present)
Tayeb Salih
•(1929 – 2009)
Taylor Swift
•(1989 – Present)
Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Tūruki
•(1832 – 1893)
Teju Cole
•(1975 – Present)
Tems
•(1995 – Present)
Teresa of Ávila
•(1515 – 1582)
Terese Marie Mailhot
•(1983 – Present)
Thales of Miletus
•(624 BCE – Unknown)
Theodore Roosevelt
•(1858 – 1919)
Theognis of Megara
•(570 BCE – Unknown)
Thich Nhat Hanh
•(1926 – 2022)
Thirumoolar
•(600 – Unknown)
Thomas Hardy
•(1840 – 1928)
Thomas Hobbes
•(1588 – 1679)
Thomas Jefferson
•(1743 – 1826)
Thomas Paine
•(1737 – 1809)
Thomas Sankara
•(1949 – 1987)
Thucydides
•(460 BCE – Unknown)
Tierno Bokar
•(1875 – 1940)
Tiffany Haddish
•(1979 – Present)
Tina Turner
•(1939 – 2023)
Tiruvalluvar
•(100 – Unknown)
Tomás Eloy Martínez
•(1934 – 2010)
Tommy Orange
•(1982 – Present)
Toni Morrison
•(1931 – 2019)
Tony Robbins
•(1960 – Present)
Torquato Tasso
•(1544 – 1595)
Toussaint Louverture
•(1743 – 1803)
Tsitsi Dangarembga
•(1959 – Present)
Tukaram
•(1598 – 1650)
Túpac Amaru II
•(1742 – 1781)
Unknown Vedic Sage
Ursula K. Le Guin
•(1929 – 2018)
V.S. Naipaul
•(1932 – 2018)
Václav Havel
•(1936 – 2011)
Valeria Luiselli
•(1983 – Present)
Velma Pollard
•(1937 – Present)
Vera Brittain
•(1893 – 1970)
Victor Hugo
•(1802 – 1885)
Victor Hwang
•(1969 – Present)
Victoria Ocampo
•(1890 – 1979)
Vikram Seth
•(1952 – Present)
Viktor Frankl
•(1905 – 1997)
Vimalakirti Sutra
•(100 – Unknown)
Vince Lombardi
•(1913 – 1970)
Virgil
•(70 BCE – Unknown)
Virginia Woolf
•(1882 – 1941)
Voltaire
•(1694 – 1778)
W. Somerset Maugham
•(1874 – 1965)
W.E.B. Du Bois
•(1868 – 1963)
Wallada bint al-Mustakfi
•(1001 – 1091)
Walt Disney
•(1901 – 1966)
Walt Whitman
•(1819 – 1892)
Wang Wei
•(699 – Unknown)
Wangari Maathai
•(1940 – 2011)
Warsan Shire
•(1988 – Present)
Werewere Liking
•(1950 – Present)
Will Smith
•(1968 – Present)
William Shakespeare
•(1564 – 1616)
William Wordsworth
•(1770 – 1850)
Wilson Harris
•(1921 – 2018)
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
•(1936 – 2018)
Winston Churchill
•(1874 – 1965)
Wisława Szymborska
•(1923 – 2012)
Witi Ihimaera
•(1944 – Present)
Wizkid
•(1990 – Present)
Wole Soyinka
•(1934 – Present)
Xenophon
•(430 BCE – Unknown)
Xu Zhimo
•(1897 – 1931)
Xuanzang
•(602 – 664)
Xunzi
•(312 BCE – Unknown)
Yaa Asantewaa
•(1840 – 1921)
Yaa Gyasi
•(1989 – Present)
Yasmin Ahmad
•(1958 – 2009)
Yemi Alade
•(1989 – Present)
Yogi Berra
•(1925 – 2015)
Yosa Buson
•(1716 – 1784)
Yunus Emre
•(1238 – 1320)
Yvonne Vera
•(1964 – 2005)
Zadie Smith
•(1975 – Present)
Zainab Bangura
•(1959 – Present)
Zera Yacob
•(1599 – 1692)
Zeynep Hatun
•(1440 – 1502)
Zhang Ailing
•(1920 – 1995)
Zhang Ruimin
•(1949 – Present)
Zhuangzi
•(369 BCE – Unknown)
Zig Ziglar
•(1926 – 2012)
Zora Neale Hurston
•(1891 – 1960)