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All 629 Celebrities (A-Z)
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Abe, KoboAboulela, LeilaAchebe, ChinuaAdebayo, Ayọ̀bámiAdichie, Chimamanda NgoziAdiga, AravindAdkins, AdeleAdrianov, NikolaiAguon, JulianAho, JuhaniAkhmatova, AnnaAl Aswany, AlaaAl Bisri, Sharifaal-Haytham, IbnAl-KhwarizmiAl-Kurdi, DuaaAlcott, KathleenAlcott, Louisa MayAlexievich, SvetlanaAlexis, AndréAlhakim, TawfiqAlharthi, JokhaAli, MonicaAllende, IsabelAltan, AhmetAlwan, HannaAmado, JorgeAmedee Barbey, JulesAnand, Mulk RajAndersen, Hans ChristianAndrić, IvoAngelou, MayaAnne Porter, KatherineAnning, MaryAnyatta, WangArchimedesAristotleArudpragasam, AnukAsturias, Miguel ÁngelAtwood, MargaretAuden, W. H.Austen, Janede Avellaneda, Gertrudis Gómez
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Bach, Johann SebastianBajani, Andreade Balzac, HonoréBarbey d’Aurevilly, JulesBarnes, DjunaBarnes, JulianBaudelaire, CharlesBeatty, Paulde Beauvoir, SimoneBeckett, SamuelBeecher Stowe, Harrietvan Beethoven, LudwigBekele, KenenisaBell, GertrudeBellow, SaulBelmondo, StefaniaBerners-Lee, TimBetasamosake Simpson, LeanneBeukes, LaurenBezos, JeffBhutto, FatimaBieber, JustinBikila, AbebeBiles, SimoneBjörnson, BjørnstjerneBjørgen, MaritBjørndalen, Ole EinarBlankers-Koen, FannyBlasim, HassanBloomberg, GeorginaBlum, HilaBocelli, AndreaBohr, NielsBolt, UsainBonaparte, NapoleonBorges, Jorge LuisBouraoui, NinaBowie, DavidBrecht, BertoltBremer, FredrikaBronte, AnneBronte, CharlotteBronte, EmilyBrowning, Elizabeth BarrettBrowning, Robertde Bruijn, IngeBruni Tedeschi Jr., ValeriaBulawayo, NoVioletBulgakov, MikhailBurroughs, JordanByatt, A.S.Byron, Lord
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del Campo, EstanislaoCamus, AlbertCarey, MariahCarlsen, MagnusCarlyle, ThomasCarpentier, AlejoCarroll, LewisCarson, RachelCartland, BarbaraCash, JohnnyCather, WillaCharles, RayChatterjee, Bankim ChandraChaudhuri, AmitChekhov, AntonChiang, TedCho, Nam-jooChopin, KateChung, ClarissaCiccone, MadonnaCixin, LiuCixous, HélèneCleopatraClerk Maxwell, JamesCoetzee, J. M.Cole, TejuColeridge, Samuel TaylorColumbus, ChristopherComăneci, NadiaConfuciusConrad, JosephCortázar, JulioCrick, FrancisCruz, AngieCurie, MarieCusk, Rachel
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Dangarembga, TsitsiDanticat, EdwidgeDarwin, CharlesDarwish, MahmoudDarío, RubénDasgupta, RanaDaudet, AlphonseDean, TorvillDevi, MahaswetaDickens, CharlesDicker, JoëlDickinson, EmilyDion, CelineDiop, DavidDjebar, AssiaDostoevsky, FyodorDressel, CaelebDrummond de Andrade, CarlosDucournau, KatiaDumas, AlexandreDumas fils, AlexandreDylan, Bob
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Eddo-Lodge, ReniEduardo Agualusa, JoséEdugyan, EsiEgan, JenniferEilish, BillieEinstein, AlbertEl Akkad, OmarEl Guerrouj, HichamEl Hachmi, NajatEl Saadawi, NawalEliot, GeorgeEliot, T. S.Elytis, OdysseasEmerson, Ralph WaldoEndo, ShusakuEnríquez, MarianaErpenbeck, JennyEuclidEvaristo, BernardineEvora, CesáriaEça de Queirós, José Maria
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Faraday, MichaelFarah, MoFarrokhzad, ForoughFaulkner, WilliamFelix, AllysonFenty, RihannaFerdinand Meyer, ConradFermi, EnricoFerrante, ElenaFetisov, VyacheslavFeynman, RichardFischer, BirgitFitzgerald, EllaFitzgerald, F. ScottFlaubert, GustaveFolorunso, TopeFonsi, LuisFontane, TheodorForna, AminattaFranklin, ArethaFranklin, BenjaminFranklin, RosalindFraser-Pryce, Shelly-AnnFreud, SigmundFuentes, CarlosFältskog, Agnetha
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Galchen, RivkaGalilei, GalileoGalloway, JaniceGandhi, MahatmaGarcía Márquez, GabrielGates, BillGautier, ThéophileGeisenberger, NatalieGenet, JeanGhalib, MirzaGhosh, AmitavGinzburg Jr., NataliaGleeson, Sineadvan Gogh, VincentGogol, NikolaiGoncharov, IvanGoodall, JaneGordimer, NadineGotthelf, JeremiasGrace, PatriciaGrande, ArianaGrappin, StephaneGrass, GünterGreenberg, IsabelGreenwell, GarthGroff, LaurenGuelfenbein, CarlaGuo, XiaoluGutenberg, JohannesGyasi, Yaa
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Hamasaki, AyumiHamid, MohsinHamilton, ScottHamsun, KnutHanyu, YuzuruHardy, ThomasHarris, JoanneHarris, KamalaHawking, StephenHawthorne, NathanielHead, BessieHeaney, SeamusHedayat, SadeghHeiden, EricHeine, HeinrichHeisenberg, WernerHemingway, ErnestHeng, ZhangHernández, JoséHesse, HermannHighsmith, PatriciaHikmet, NazimHippocratesHolan, Vladimirvan den Hoogenband, PieterHopper, GraceHourani, HassanHouston, WhitneyHoy, ChrisHugo, VictorHutchinson, IshionHypatia
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Kabbani, RanaKadaré, IsmailKafka, FranzKahlo, FridaKang, HanKanno, YokoKapuscinski, RyszardKarunatilaka, ShehanKaur, RupiKavenna, JoannaKawabata, YasunariKawakami, HiromiKawakami, MiekoKeats, JohnKeller, GottfriedKenny, JasonKepler, JohannesKertész, ImreKim, ChloeKipchoge, EliudKitajima, KosukeKnausgård, Karl OveKnowles, BeyoncéKo, LisaKorneliussen, NiviaqKrasko, IvanKundera, MilanKurniawan, EkaKuti, Fela
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Lagerkvist, PärLahiri, JhumpaLalami, LailaLamarr, HedyLatynina, LarisaLavoisier, AntoineLedecky, KatieLee, Min JinLennon, JohnLermontov, MikhailLessing, DorisLevy, DeborahLewis, CarlLi, YiyunLimón, AdaLincoln, AbrahamLinnaeus, CarlLipinski, TaraLispector, ClariceLiukin, NastiaLobo Antunes, AntónioLochte, RyanLope de VegaLovelace, AdaLuciano, PavarottiLuiselli, Valeria
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Ma, LingMachado de Assis, Joaquim MariaMahfouz, NaguibMakeba, MiriamMalagatti, AravindMallarmé, StéphaneMandela, NelsonManiscalco, SebastianMann, ThomasMansfield, KatherineManto, Saadat HasanManuel, SimoneManzoni, AlessandroMaraini, DaciaMarengwa, DambudzoMaria, CallasMarley, BobMarra, AdaMars, BrunoMathieu, NicolasMatsuda, AokoMatsumoto, SeichoMay-Treanor, MistyMayakovsky, VladimirMbougar Sarr, MohamedMbue, ImboloMcCartney, PaulMcClintock, BarbaraMebarak, ShakiraMeitner, LiseMelchor, FernandaMelo, PatríciaMelville, HermanMendel, GregorMendeleev, DmitriMercury, FreddieMeredith, GeorgeMeyer, ClemensMichelangeloMickiewicz, AdamMiller, ArthurMinxia, WuMishima, YukioMistral, GabrielaMitchell, DavidMiura, ShionMiłosz, CzesławMoir, ScottMontale, EugenioMorante, ElsaMoravia, AlbertoMorrison, ToniMoshfegh, OttessaMozart, Wolfgang AmadeusMunaweera, NayomiMunro, AliceMurakami, HarukiMurata, SayakaMurray, AndyMurray, LesMusk, Elonde Musset, AlfredMustafah, SaharMwanza Mujila, FistonMüller, Herta
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Pampini, GabinoPamuk, OrhanPasternak, BorisPasteur, LouisPaz, OctavioPeixoto, José LuísPellegrini, FedericaPerse, Saint‑JohnPetőfi, SándorPhelps, MichaelPicasso, PabloPincent, MatthewPitts, JohnyPlanck, MaxPlatoPoe, Edgar AllanPolo, MarcoPoniatowska, ElenaPorter, MaxPresley, ElvisProulx, AnniePudzianowski, MariuszPushkin, AlexanderPutuma, KolekaPythagorasPérez Galdós, Benito
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Rankine, ClaudiaReade, CharlesRedgrave, SteveReiche, AriannaRembrandtReyes, DoloresRichards-Ross, SanyaRilke, Rainer MariaRimbaud, ArthurRiner, TeddyRobinson, BettyRoffey, MoniqueRolland, RomainRooney, SallyRoss, DianaRoss, LeoneRostand, EdmondRoy, ArundhatiRudisha, DavidRudolph, WilmaRugero, RolandRuolin, ChenRushdie, SalmanRóżewicz, Tadeusz
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Saeki, SayakaSagan, CarlSalih, TayebSartre, Jean-PaulSavón, FelixScherbo, VitalySchrödinger, ErwinSchweblin, SamantaSebald, W. G.Sebbar, LeïlaSeferis, GiorgosSeghers, AnnaSelvadurai, ShyamSepetys, RutaSerpell, NamwaliShafak, ElifShakespeare, WilliamShamsie, KamilaSheeran, EdShelley, Percy ByssheShevchenko, TarasShibli, AdaniaShields, ClaressaShiffrin, MikaelaShikibu, MurasakiShire, WarsanShree, GeetanjaliShtotland, KarinaSienkiewicz, HenrykSigurdsson, SjonSigurðsson, SjónSimone, NinaSinatra, FrankSitwell, EdithSkarsgard, BirgitSlimani, LeilaSmith, AliSmith, PattiSmith, SamSnow, C. P.SocratesSolzhenitsyn, AleksandrSoyinka, WoleSpark, MurielSpitz, MarkStatovci, PajtimStendhalStevenson, Robert LouisStevenson, TeófiloStifter, AdalbertStoker, BramStorm, TheodorStreisand, BarbraStrindberg, AugustStrug, KerriSwift, TaylorSyjuco, MiguelSzymborska, WisławaSzécsi, NoémiSábato, ErnestoSüleymanoğlu, NaimSłowacki, JuliuszSōseki, Natsume
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Tagore, RabindranathTaro Greenfeld, KarlTaylor, BrandonTegnér, EsaiasTerrin, PeterTesla, NikolaTevetoğlu, TarkanThomas, DylanThompson, DaleyThoreau, Henry DavidThorpe, IanTokarczuk, OlgaTolstoy, LeoTomba, AlbertoTorvill, JayneTouqan, FadwaTretiak, VladislavTrump, DonaldTurgenev, IvanTuring, AlanTwain, Mark
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wa Thiong'o, Ngũgĩwa Thiong'o Jr., NgugiWadsworth Longfellow, HenryWalcott, DerekWalker, AliceWalsh Jennings, KerriWarton, EdithWashington, GeorgeWatson, JamesWatson, MaryWells, H.G.Werth, IsabellWhite, PatrickWhite, ShaunWhite, T. H.Whitehead, ColsonWhitman, WaltWilde, OscarWilliams, SerenaWilliams, VenusWilson, EdmundWinhouse, AmyWinterson, JeanetteWitt, KatarinaWonder, StevieWoolf, VirginiaWordsworth, WilliamWu, Chien-ShiungWłodarczyk, Anita