Authors
Ordered by name. Order by date of birth
Alphabetical list
John Knowles (1926 - 0) -- American novelist and short-story writer.
Marie Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, Comtesse de La Fayette (1634 - 1693) -- French novelist, remembered for her La princesse de Clèves.
Jean de La Fontaine (1621 - 1695) -- French writer, famed for his Fables, a collection of poems.
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741 - 1803) -- French novelist, whose masterpiece is Les liaisons dangereuses.
Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912) -- Scottish writer of histories, poetry, and, most famously, fairytales.
Tzu Lao (500 - 500) -- Influential Chinese philosopher who founded Taoism.
Ring Lardner (1885 - 1933) -- popular American humourist and writer.
David H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930) -- one of the greatest novelists of the century.
Henry Lawson (1867 - 1922) -- influential poet who captured the Australian way of life.
Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944) -- Canadian writer of non-fiction works in politics and economics, as well as short stories.
Harper Lee (1926 - 0) -- contemporary award-winning American writer.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 - 1716) -- prominent rationalist philosopher who based his metaphysics on the existence of simple immaterial substances called monads.
Gaston Leroux (1868 - 1927) -- French mystery novelist and playwright, remembered for his Phantom of the Opera.
Gotthold Lessing (1729 - 1781) -- German dramatist and critic of the Enlightenment.
Leucippus (400 - 400) -- less famous than his successor, Democritus, Leucippus is credited with being the co-founder of atomism.
Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951) -- American novelist and nobel laureate, whose naturalistic style was very influential.
Livy (59 - 17) -- Roman historian, whose History traces the city from its earliest beginnings.
John Locke (1632 - 1704) -- English philosopher who wrote widely but who is remembered mainly for his theory of political consent, and his development of a rationalist epistemology.
Jack London (1876 - 1916) -- American author of realistic fiction.
Henry W. Longfellow (1807 - 1882) -- nineteenth century American poet.
Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925) -- leading poet of the imagist school and a literary critic.
Lucretius (95 - 52) -- Roman poet who attempted to popularise Epicurean philosophy.
Martin Luther (1483 - 1546) -- German theologian and leader of the Protestant Reformation.
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469 - 1527) -- Italian statesman and political philosopher, famous for his amoral guide to becoming a successful prince.
Moses Maimonides (1135 - 1204) -- Jewish philosopher and jurist.
