Authors
Ordered by name. Order by date of birth
Alphabetical list
Gaius Julius Caesar (102 - 44) -- Roman politician and military genius, whose <i>Commentaries</i> have left us an astonishing account of his military campaigns.
Thomas de Vio Cajetan (1468 - 1534) -- influential Thomist philosopher, who developed aspects of Aristotle and Aquinas' philosophy.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600 - 1681) -- poet and dramatist of the golden age of Spanish literature.
Tommaso Campanella (1568 - 1639) -- Italian philosopher and contemporary of Bruno and Galileo, who, although claiming to refute atheism, was imprisoned for his unconventional beliefs.
Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) -- French novelist and philosopher, whose exploration of 'the absurd' has become an important part of the existentialist tradition.
Melchior Cano (1509 - 1560) -- Spanish theologian.
Georg Cantor (1845 - 1918) -- mathematician who developed set theory and mathematics of the infinite.
Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) -- Scottish historian and essayist, who famously argued that history is the biography of great men.
Carneades (214 - 129) -- Greek philosopher who, following Arcesilaus, embraced scepticism.
Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898) -- British author of unlikely mathematical descent..
Willa Sibert Cather (1876 - 1947) -- novelist, who memorably portrayed the life of American settlers.
Miguel De Cervantes (1547 - 1616) -- celebrated Spanish playwright and poet, whose <I>Don Quixote</I> is the most famous work in Spanish literature..
Andrea Cesalpino (1519 - 1603) -- Italian physician and pioneering botanist.
François Auguste René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768 - 1848) -- admired French poet , who was actively involved in events of his time and is most famous for his autobiography..
Geoffrey Chaucer (1342 - 1400) -- English poet, before Shakespeare, whose varied work includes one of the greatest poems, <I>The Cantebury Tales</I>..
Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904) -- Russian writer; a great dramatist whose plays and short stories have been immensely influential.
Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936) -- Edwardian era novelist, essayist and poet.
Kate Chopin (1850 - 1904) -- American writer, whose most famous novel, The Awakening, is remembered for its feminist themes.
Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976) -- Agatha Christie was a poet and authoress of detective mysteries..
Chrysippus (280 - 207) -- important leader of the Stoic school of thought in Greece.
Marcus T. Cicero (106 - 143) -- Roman statesman whose literary and philosophical writings have been profoundly influential.
Samuel Clarke (1675 - 1729) -- rationalist philosopher who claimed that moral decisions can be as certain as mathematical ones, and who promoted the work of Isaac Newton.
Cleanthes (310 - 230) -- Greek stoic philosopher, who was a follower of Zeno of Citium.
Samuel T. Coleridge (1772 - 1834) -- poet and literary philosopher of the Romantic movement..
Wilkie Collins (1824 - 1889) -- British writer who originated the genre of detective fiction.
