Famous poets

person who writes poetry

3,467 people

All Alive Deceased
Nero

Nero

0037 – 0068 · Age 30
Deceased
Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun

1859 – 1952 · Age 92
Deceased
Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë

1816 – 1855 · Age 38
Deceased
Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello

1867 – 1936 · Age 69
Deceased
Taras Shevchenko

Taras Shevchenko

1814 – 1861 · Age 47
Deceased
Thomas More

Thomas More

1478 – 1535 · Age 57
Deceased
Maurice Maeterlinck

Maurice Maeterlinck

1862 – 1949 · Age 86
Deceased
Emily Brontë

Emily Brontë

1818 – 1848 · Age 30
Deceased
Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke

1875 – 1926 · Age 51
Deceased
Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

1934 – 2016 · Age 82
Deceased
Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing

1919 – 2013 · Age 94
Deceased
Tupac Shakur

Tupac Shakur

1971 – 1996 · Age 25
Deceased
Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

1709 – 1784 · Age 75
Deceased
Valery Leontiev

Valery Leontiev

1949 · Age 76
Alive
Titus Livius

Titus Livius

Deceased
Ruhollah Khomeini

Ruhollah Khomeini

1902 – 1989 · Age 86
Deceased
Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace

1815 – 1852 · Age 36
Deceased
Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

1931 – 2019 · Age 88
Deceased
Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley

1797 – 1851 · Age 53
Deceased
Adam Mickiewicz

Adam Mickiewicz

1798 – 1855 · Age 56
Deceased
C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis

1898 – 1963 · Age 64
Deceased
Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova

1889 – 1966 · Age 76
Deceased
Herman Melville

Herman Melville

1819 – 1891 · Age 72
Deceased
Ferdowsi

Ferdowsi

0940 – 1020 · Age 80
Deceased
Mikhail Lermontov

Mikhail Lermontov

1814 – 1841 · Age 26
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q49757