Famous playwrights

person who writes plays

1,326 people

All Alive Deceased
Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

1859 – 1930 · Age 71
Deceased
Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller

1759 – 1805 · Age 45
Deceased
Maxim Gorky

Maxim Gorky

1868 – 1936 · Age 68
Deceased
Kalidasa

Kalidasa

Alive
Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

1802 – 1870 · Age 68
Deceased
Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen

1828 – 1906 · Age 78
Deceased
Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine

1797 – 1856 · Age 58
Deceased
Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz

1911 – 2006 · Age 94
Deceased
Émile Zola

Émile Zola

1840 – 1902 · Age 62
Deceased
Octave Mirbeau

Octave Mirbeau

1848 – 1917 · Age 69
Deceased
Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman

1918 – 2007 · Age 89
Deceased
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1918 – 2008 · Age 89
Deceased
Woody Allen

Woody Allen

1935 · Age 90
Alive
Seneca

Seneca

Deceased
T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

1888 – 1965 · Age 76
Deceased
Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol

1809 – 1852 · Age 42
Deceased
Euripides

Euripides

Deceased
Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

1898 – 1956 · Age 58
Deceased
William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

1865 – 1939 · Age 73
Deceased
Guy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant

1850 – 1893 · Age 42
Deceased
Aeschylus

Aeschylus

Deceased
Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev

1818 – 1883 · Age 64
Deceased
Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot

1713 – 1784 · Age 70
Deceased
Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

1899 – 1977 · Age 78
Deceased
William Faulkner

William Faulkner

1897 – 1962 · Age 64
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q214917