Famous poets
person who writes poetry
3,467 people
John Milton
1608
– 1674
· Age 65
Deceased
Nikolai Gogol
1809
– 1852
· Age 42
Deceased
Selma Lagerlöf
1858
– 1940
· Age 81
Deceased
Euripides
Lewis Carroll
1832
– 1898
· Age 65
Deceased
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803
– 1882
· Age 78
Deceased
Bertolt Brecht
1898
– 1956
· Age 58
Deceased
William Butler Yeats
1865
– 1939
· Age 73
Deceased
Ho Chi Minh
1890
– 1969
· Age 79
Deceased
Robert Louis Stevenson
1850
– 1894
· Age 44
Deceased
Guy de Maupassant
1850
– 1893
· Age 42
Deceased
Giovanni Boccaccio
1313
– 1375
· Age 62
Deceased
Giordano Bruno
1548
– 1600
· Age 52
Deceased
Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
0599
– 0661
· Age 61
Deceased
Ivan Turgenev
1818
– 1883
· Age 64
Deceased
Jim Morrison
1943
– 1971
· Age 27
Deceased
Vladimir Nabokov
1899
– 1977
· Age 78
Deceased
Aristophanes
Sappho
William Faulkner
1897
– 1962
· Age 64
Deceased
Walt Whitman
1819
– 1892
· Age 72
Deceased
Martin Heidegger
1889
– 1976
· Age 86
Deceased
Emily Dickinson
1830
– 1886
· Age 55
Deceased
Ali Khamenei
1939
– 2026
· Age 86
Deceased
Jean de La Fontaine
1621
– 1695
· Age 73
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q49757