Authors Starting with “A”
17 authors found
Abraham Lincoln
American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States
Adam Smith
Adam Smith was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the field of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment.
Alan Turing
Was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist.
Alan Watts
Was an English writer, speaker, and self-styled "philosophical entertainer", known for interpreting and popularising Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western audience.
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist who is widely held to be one of the greatest and most influential scientists of all time
Andy Warhol
Was an American visual artist, film director and producer. A leading figure in the pop art movement, Warhol is considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century.
Angela Davis
American Marxist and feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, and author; she is a professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Anne Frank
Anne Frank (1929–1945) was a German-born Dutch Jewish girl who became a symbol of the Holocaust. Her diary, written while hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam, has been translated into dozens of languages and is considered one of the most important works of the 20th century.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, vicomte de Saint-Exupéry, known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, was a French writer, poet, journalist and aviator.
Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer, widely considered one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics.
Aristotle
Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian and American actor, businessman, politician, and former professional bodybuilder, known for his roles in high-profile action films. He served as the 38th governor of California from 2003 to 2011.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Was a German philosopher. He is known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation, which characterizes the phenomenal world as the manifestation of a blind and irrational noumenal will.
Audrey Hepburn
Was a British actress. Hepburn had a successful career in Hollywood and was recognised as a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Classical Hollywood cinema and was inducted into the International Best Dressed Hall of Fame List.
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam was an Indian aerospace scientist and statesman who served as the president of India from 2002 to 2007.
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand (born Alissa Zinovievna Rosenbaum) was a Russian-American novelist and philosopher best known for developing Objectivism. Through her novels and essays, she championed individualism, reason, and laissez-faire capitalism, leaving a lasting mark on American political and cultural discourse.