Thomas Edison

Abe, Kobo Aboulela, Leila Abramović, Marina Achebe, Chinua Adams, John Adams, John Quincy Adebayo, Ayọ̀bámi Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi Adiga, Aravind Adkins, Adele Adrianov, Nikolai Aguon, Julian Aho, Juhani Akhmatova, Anna Al Aswany, Alaa Al Bisri, Sharifa al-Haytham, Ibn Al-Khwarizmi Al-Kurdi, Duaa Alcott, Kathleen Alcott, Louisa May Alexandria, Nana Alexievich, Svetlana Alexis, André Alhakim, Tawfiq Alharthi, Jokha Ali, Monica Aljechin, Alexander Allende, Isabel Almodóvar, Pedro Altan, Ahmet Alwan, Hanna Amado, Jorge Amedee Barbey, Jules Anand, Mulk Raj Anand, Viswanathan Andersen, Hans Christian Andrić, Ivo Angelou, Maya Anguissola, Sofonisba Anne Porter, Katherine Anning, Mary Aparicio, Yalitza Archimedes Aristotle Aronian, Levon Arp, Jean Arthur, Chester A. Arudpragasam, Anuk Asturias, Miguel Ángel Atwood, Margaret Auden, W. H. Audubon, John James Austen, Jane de Avellaneda, Gertrudis Gómez

Babbage, Charles Bach, Johann Sebastian Bacon, Francis Bad Bunny Bajani, Andrea de Balzac, Honoré Barbey d’Aurevilly, Jules Bardem, Javier Bardot, Brigitte Barnes, Djuna Barnes, Julian Basquiat, Jean-Michel Baudelaire, Charles Beatty, Paul de Beauvoir, Simone Beckett, Samuel Beecher Stowe, Harriet van Beethoven, Ludwig Bekele, Kenenisa Beliavsky, Alexander Bell, Gertrude Bellow, Saul Bellucci, Monica Belmondo, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Stefania Bergman, Ingrid Berners-Lee, Tim Bernini, Gian Lorenzo Berry, Halle Betasamosake Simpson, Leanne Beukes, Lauren Bezos, Jeff Bhutto, Fatima Biden, Joe Bieber, Justin Bikila, Abebe Biles, Simone Binoche, Juliette Björnson, Bjørnstjerne Bjørgen, Marit Bjørndalen, Ole Einar Blanchett, Cate Blankers-Koen, Fanny Blasim, Hassan Bloomberg, Georgina Blum, Hila Blunt, Emily Bocelli, Andrea Bohr, Niels Bolt, Usain Bonaparte, Napoleon Borges, Jorge Luis Boseman, Chadwick Botticelli, Sandro Botvinnik, Mikhail Bouraoui, Nina Bourgeois, Louise Bowie, David Brahms, Johannes Braque, Georges Brecht, Bertolt Bremer, Fredrika Bronte, Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert de Bruijn, Inge Le Brun, Élisabeth Vigée Bruni Tedeschi Jr., Valeria Brynner, Yul Brâncuși, Constantin Buchanan, James Bulawayo, NoViolet Bulgakov, Mikhail Buonarroti, Michelangelo Van Buren, Martin Burroughs, Jordan Bush, George H. W. Bush, George W. Byatt, A.S. Byron, Lord

Caesar, Julius del Campo, Estanislao Camus, Albert Capablanca, Jose Raul Caravaggio, Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) Carey, Mariah Carlsen, Magnus Carlyle, Thomas Carpentier, Alejo Carroll, Lewis Carson, Rachel Carter, Jimmy Cartland, Barbara Caruana, Fabiano Cash, Johnny Cassatt, Mary Cather, Willa Chagall, Marc Chan, Gemma Chan, Jackie Charles, Ray Chatterjee, Bankim Chandra Chaudhuri, Amit Cheadle, Don Chekhov, Anton Cheung, Maggie Chiang, Ted Cho, Nam-joo Chopin, Frédéric Chopin, Kate Chung, Clarissa Churchill, Winston Ciccone, Madonna Cixin, Liu Cixous, Hélène Clark, Lygia Claudel, Camille Cleopatra Clerk Maxwell, James Cleveland, Grover Clinton, Bill Clooney, George Coetzee, J. M. Cole, Teju Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Columbus, Christopher Comăneci, Nadia Confucius Conrad, Joseph Coolidge, Calvin Cortázar, Julio Cotillard, Marion Courbet, Gustave Cramling, Pia Crick, Francis Cruz, Angie Cruz, Penélope Curie, Marie Cusk, Rachel Cézanne, Paul

Dafoe, Willem Dalí, Salvador Dangarembga, Tsitsi Danticat, Edwidge Darwin, Charles Darwish, Mahmoud Darío, Rubén Dasgupta, Rana Daudet, Alphonse David Friedrich, Caspar Day-Lewis, Daniel Degas, Edgar Delpy, Julie Deneuve, Catherine Dennis, Duke Devi, Mahasweta DiCaprio, Leonardo Dickens, Charles Dicker, Joël Dickinson, Emily Dion, Celine Diop, David Djebar, Assia do Amaral, Tarsila Domínguez, Leinier Dostoevsky, Fyodor Drake Dressel, Caeleb Drummond de Andrade, Carlos Ducournau, Katia Dumas, Alexandre Dumas fils, Alexandre Dunaway, Faye DuVernay, Ava Dylan, Bob Dürer, Albrecht

Eddo-Lodge, Reni Edison, Thomas Eduardo Agualusa, José Edugyan, Esi Egan, Jennifer Eilish, Billie Einstein, Albert Eisenhower, Dwight D. El Akkad, Omar El Guerrouj, Hicham El Hachmi, Najat El Saadawi, Nawal Elba, Idris Eliot, George Eliot, T. S. Ellington, Edward Kennedy "Duke" Elytis, Odysseas Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emin, Tracey Endo, Shusaku Enríquez, Mariana Ernst, Max Erpenbeck, Jenny Euclid Evaristo, Bernardine Evora, Cesária Eça de Queirós, José Maria

Faraday, Michael Farah, Mo Farrokhzad, Forough Faulkner, William Fedoseev, Vladimir Felix, Allyson Fenty, Rihanna Ferdinand Meyer, Conrad Fermi, Enrico Ferrante, Elena Fetisov, Vyacheslav Feynman, Richard Fiennes, Ralph Fillmore, Millard Firouzja, Alireza Fischer, Birgit Fischer, Bobby Fitzgerald, Ella Fitzgerald, F. Scott Flaubert, Gustave Folorunso, Tope Fonsi, Luis Fontane, Theodor Ford, Gerald R. Ford, Harrison Forna, Aminatta Frank, Anne Frankenthaler, Helen Franklin, Aretha Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, Rosalind Fraser-Pryce, Shelly-Ann Freeman, Morgan Freud, Lucian Freud, Sigmund Fuentes, Carlos Fältskog, Agnetha

Galchen, Rivka Galilei, Galileo Galloway, Janice Gandhi, Mahatma Ganguly, Surya Shekhar Garbo, Greta García Bernal, Gael García Márquez, Gabriel Gardner, Ava Garfield, James A. Gates, Bill Gauguin, Paul Gautier, Théophile Geisenberger, Natalie Geller, Efim Genet, Jean Gentileschi, Artemisia Gerwig, Greta Ghalib, Mirza Ghosh, Amitav Giacometti, Alberto Giba Ginzburg Jr., Natalia Giri, Anish Gleeson, Sinead van Gogh, Vincent Gogol, Nikolai Goncharov, Ivan Goodall, Jane Gordimer, Nadine Gordon-Levitt, Joseph Gosling, Ryan Gotthelf, Jeremias De Goya, Francisco Grace, Patricia Grande, Ariana Grant, Ulysses S. Grass, Günter Green, Eva Greenberg, Isabel Greenwell, Garth Grischuk, Alexander Groff, Lauren Guelfenbein, Carla Guitry, Sacha Gujrathi, Vidit Guo, Xiaolu Gutenberg, Johannes Gyasi, Yaa

Hamasaki, Ayumi Hamid, Mohsin Hamilton, Scott Hamsun, Knut Hanks, Tom Hanyu, Yuzuru Hao, Wang Harding, Warren G. Hardy, Thomas Harikrishna, Pentala Harris, Joanne Harris, Kamala Harrison, Benjamin Harrison, William Henry Hashmi, Zarina Hawking, Stephen Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hayek, Salma Hayes, Rutherford B. Hayworth, Rita Head, Bessie Heaney, Seamus Hedayat, Sadegh Heiden, Eric Heine, Heinrich Heisenberg, Werner Hemingway, Ernest Heng, Zhang Hepburn, Audrey Hepworth, Barbara Hernández, José Herzog, Werner Hesse, Hermann Highsmith, Patricia Hikmet, Nazim Hippocrates Hiroshige, Utagawa Hokusai, Katsushika Holan, Vladimir Holzer, Jenny van den Hoogenband, Pieter Hoover, Herbert Hopkins, Anthony Hopper, Edward Hopper, Grace Hosseini, Shahab Hourani, Hassan Houston, Whitney Hoy, Chris Hugo, Victor Humpy, Koneru Huppert, Isabelle Husain, M. F. Hutchinson, Ishion Hypatia

Ibsen, Henrik Icho, Kaori Iglesias, Enrique Ilin, Ilya Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Irving, Washington Ishiguro, Kazuo Isinbayeva, Yelena Iñarritu Jr., Andrés

Jackson, Andrew Jackson, Michael Jacobsen, Jens Peter James, Etta James, Henry James, Kirani James, Marlon Jefferson, Thomas Jelloun, Tahar Ben Jensen, Carsten Jingjing, Guo Jobs, Steve Johnson, Andrew Johnson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Michael Johnson, Shawn Joyce, James Joyner, Florence Joyner-Kersee, Jackie Jr., Martin Luther King

Kabakov, Ilya Kabbani, Rana Kadaré, Ismail Kafka, Franz Kahlo, Frida Kandinsky, Wassily Kang, Han Kang-ho, Song Kanno, Yoko Kapoor, Anil Kapur, Anish Kapuscinski, Ryszard Karjakin, Sergey Karpov, Anatoly Karunatilaka, Shehan Kasparov, Garry Kaur, Rupi Kavenna, Joanna Kawabata, Yasunari Kawakami, Hiromi Kawakami, Mieko Keats, John Keller, Gottfried Kennedy, John F. Kenny, Jason Kepler, Johannes Keres, Paul Kertész, Imre Khan, Aamir Kidman, Nicole Kiefer, Anselm Kikuchi, Rinko Kim, Chloe Kipchoge, Eliud Kitajima, Kosuke Klee, Paul Klimt, Gustav Knausgård, Karl Ove Knowles, Beyoncé Ko, Lisa Kollwitz, Käthe de Kooning, Willem Korchnoi, Viktor Korneliussen, Niviaq Kosteniuk, Alexandra Kramnik, Vladimir Krasko, Ivan Kundera, Milan Kurniawan, Eka Kurosawa, Akira Kusama, Yayoi Kuti, Fela

Labisse, Félix Lagerkvist, Pär Lahiri, Jhumpa Lalami, Laila Lamarr, Hedy Larson, Brie Lasker, Emanuel Latynina, Larisa Lau, Andy Laurent, Mélanie Lavoisier, Antoine Ledecky, Katie Ledger, Heath Lee, Min Jin Leko, Peter de Lempicka, Tamara Lennon, John Lermontov, Mikhail Lessing, Doris Levy, Deborah Lewis, Carl Li, Gong Li, Yiyun Limón, Ada Lincoln, Abraham Linnaeus, Carl Lipinski, Tara Liren, Ding Lispector, Clarice Liu, Lucy Liukin, Nastia Lobo Antunes, António Lochte, Ryan Lope de Vega Loren, Sofia Lovelace, Ada Luciano, Pavarotti Luiselli, Valeria Lutikov, Anatoly

Ma, Ling Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria Madison, James Magritte, Rene Mahfouz, Naguib Makeba, Miriam Malagatti, Aravind Malek, Rami Mallarmé, Stéphane Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar Mandela, Nelson Manet, Édouard Maniscalco, Sebastian Mann, Thomas Mansfield, Katherine Manto, Saadat Hasan Manuel, Simone Manzoni, Alessandro Maraini, Dacia Marengwa, Dambudzo Maria, Callas Marley, Bob Marra, Ada Mars, Bruno Martinez, Olivier Mathieu, Nicolas Matisse, Henri Matsuda, Aoko Matsumoto, Seicho May-Treanor, Misty Mayakovsky, Vladimir Mbougar Sarr, Mohamed Mbue, Imbolo McCartney, Paul McClintock, Barbara McKinley, William Mebarak, Shakira Mehretu, Julie Meitner, Lise Melchor, Fernanda Melo, Patrícia Melville, Herman Menchik, Vera Mendel, Gregor Mendeleev, Dmitri Mercury, Freddie Meredith, George Merlant, Noémie Meyer, Clemens Mickiewicz, Adam Mifune, Toshiro Miller, Arthur Min-sik, Choi Minxia, Wu Mirren, Helen Miró, Joan Mishima, Yukio Mistral, Gabriela Mitchell, David Mitchell, Joan Miura, Shion Miyazaki, Hayao Miłosz, Czesław Modigliani, Amedeo Moir, Scott Mondrian, Piet Monet, Claude Monroe, James Montale, Eugenio Moore, Henry Moore, Julianne Morante, Elsa Moravia, Alberto Morisot, Berthe Morphy, Paul Morrison, Toni Mortensen, Viggo Moshfegh, Ottessa Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Muchá, Alphonse Munaweera, Nayomi Munch, Edvard Munro, Alice Murakami, Haruki Murata, Sayaka Murray, Andy Murray, Les Musah, Yunus Musk, Elon de Musset, Alfred Mustafah, Sahar Mutu, Wangechi Muzichuk, Mariya Muzychuk, Anna Mwanza Mujila, Fiston Müller, Herta

N., F. S. Nabokov, Vladimir Naguib, Mahfouz Naidu, Sarojini Naipaul, V. S. Nakamura, Hikaru Narayan, R.K. Navara, David Nayeri, Dina NDiaye, Marie Nelson, Prince Nepomniachtchi, Ian Neruda, Pablo Neuman, Andrés Newton, Isaac van Niekerk, Wayde Nietzsche, Friedrich Nightingale, Florence Nin, Anaïs Nixon, Richard Nobel, Alfred Noemí, Darío Noguchi, Isamu Nunn, John Nurmi, Paavo Nyong'o, Lupita

O'Keeffe, Georgia Obama, Barack Obioma, Chigozie Offill, Jenny Ogawa, Sayaka Ogawa, Yōko Okorafor, Nnedi Okri, Ben Oksanen, Sofi Orwell, George Otsuka, Julie Owens, Jesse

Pampini, Gabino Pamuk, Orhan Pasternak, Boris Pasteur, Louis Patel, Dev Paz, Octavio Peixoto, José Luís Pellegrini, Federica Perse, Saint‑John Petrosian, Tigran Petőfi, Sándor Phelps, Michael Picasso, Pablo Pierce, Franklin Pincent, Matthew Pissarro, Camille Pitts, Johny Planck, Max Plato Poe, Edgar Allan Polgar, Judith Polk, James Pollock, Jackson Polo, Marco Poniatowska, Elena Ponomariov, Ruslan Porter, Cole Porter, Max Portman, Natalie Presley, Elvis Proulx, Annie Pudzianowski, Mariusz Pushkin, Alexander Putuma, Koleka Pythagoras Pérez Galdós, Benito

Qabbani, Nizar Quasimodo, Salvatore

Radjabov, Teimour Rahim, Tahar Rai, Aishwarya Rankine, Claudia Rapport, Richard Reade, Charles Reagan, Ronald Redgrave, Steve Reeves, Keanu Reiche, Arianna Rembrandt Renoir, Pierre-Auguste Renó, Jean Reyes, Dolores Richards-Ross, Sanya Richter, Gerhard van Rijn, Rembrandt Riley, Bridget Rilke, Rainer Maria Rimbaud, Arthur Riner, Teddy Rivera, Diego Rivera, Marian Robinson, Betty Rockwell, Norman Rodin, Auguste Roffey, Monique Rolland, Romain Rooney, Sally Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Ross, Diana Ross, Leone Rostand, Edmond Roy, Arundhati Rubinstein, Akiba Rudisha, David Rudolph, Wilma Rugero, Roland Rukh Khan, Shah Ruolin, Chen Rushdie, Salman Różewicz, Tadeusz

Saeki, Sayaka Sagan, Carl Saldana, Zoe Salih, Tayeb Sanada, Hiroyuki Sanzio, Raphael Sartre, Jean-Paul Savón, Felix Scherbo, Vitaly Schiele, Egon Schrödinger, Erwin Schweblin, Samanta Sebald, W. G. Sebbar, Leïla Seberg, Jean Seferis, Giorgos Seghers, Anna Selvadurai, Shyam Sepetys, Ruta Serpell, Namwali Seurat, Georges Shafak, Elif Shakespeare, William Shamsie, Kamila Shankland, Samuel Sharif, Omar Sheeran, Ed Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shevchenko, Taras Shibli, Adania Shields, Claressa Shiffrin, Mikaela Shikibu, Murasaki Shire, Warsan Short, Nigel Shree, Geetanjali Shtotland, Karina Sienkiewicz, Henryk Signac, Paul Sigurdsson, Sjon Sigurðsson, Sjón Simone, Nina Sinatra, Frank Singer Sargent, John Sitwell, Edith Skarsgard, Birgit Slimani, Leila Smith, Ali Smith, Patti Smith, Sam Smyslov, Vassily Snow, C. P. So, Wesley Socrates Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Song, Kang-ho Soyinka, Wole Spark, Muriel Spassky, Boris Spitz, Mark Statovci, Pajtim Stefanova, Antoaneta Steinitz, Wilhelm Stendhal Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Teófilo Stifter, Adalbert Stoker, Bram Stone, Sharon Storm, Theodor Streep, Meryl Streisand, Barbra Strindberg, August Strug, Kerri Swift, Taylor Swinton, Tilda Syjuco, Miguel Szymborska, Wisława Szécsi, Noémi Sábato, Ernesto Süleymanoğlu, Naim Słowacki, Juliusz Sōseki, Natsume

Taft, William Howard Tagore, Rabindranath Taimanov, Mark Taro Greenfeld, Karl Tauber-Arp, Sophie Taylor, Brandon Taylor, Zachary Tegnér, Esaias Terrin, Peter Tesla, Nikola Tevetoğlu, Tarkan Theron, Charlize Thomas, Dylan Thompson, Daley Thoreau, Henry David Thorpe, Ian Tokarczuk, Olga Tolstoy, Leo Tomba, Alberto Topalov, Veselin del Toro, Benicio Torvill, Jayne Touqan, Fadwa Tretiak, Vladislav Truman, Harry S. Trump, Donald Turgenev, Ivan Turing, Alan Turner, William Twain, Mark Tyler, John

Uchimura, Kohei Ugrešić, Dubravka Ulvaeus, Björn Unamuno, Miguel de Undset, Sigrid

Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime Vallès, Jules Vargas Llosa, Mario Vecellio, Titian Velázquez, Diego Verdi, Guiseppe Verlaine, Paul Vermeer, Johannes Verne, Jules Verstappen, Max da Vinci, Leonardo Virtue, Tessa Vonn, Lindsey Vuillard, Édouard Vuong, Ocean

wa Thiong'o, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Jr., Ngugi Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry Waititi, Taika Walcott, Derek Walker, Alice Walker, Kara Walsh Jennings, Kerri Warton, Edith Washington, Denzel Washington, George Watanabe, Ken Watson, James Watson, Mary Watts, Naomi Weisz, Rachel Weiwei, Ai Wells, H.G. Werth, Isabell Whitaker, Forest White, Patrick White, Shaun White, T. H. Whitehead, Colson Whitman, Walt Wilde, Oscar Williams, Grant Williams, Michelle Williams, Serena Williams, Venus Wilson, Edmund Wilson, Woodrow Winehouse, Amy Winterson, Jeanette Witt, Katarina Wonder, Stevie Wood, Grant Woolf, Virginia Wordsworth, William Wou-Ki, Zao Wu, Chien-Shiung Włodarczyk, Anita

Xie, Jenny Xingjian, Gao

Yang, Sun Yen, Donnie Yeo-sun, Kwon Yeoh, Michelle Yi, Wei Yifan, Hou Yoshida, Saori Young-ha, Kim Youyou, Tu Yue, Yuan Yun-fat, Chow

Zelezny, Jan Zhang, Jenny Zhukova, Natalia Ziyi, Zhang Zola, Emile Zuckerberg, Mark Zátopek, Emil

Čapek, Karel Ōe, Kenzaburō