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20th-century British poets

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T. S. Eliot
US-British poet (1888–1965)
Ronald Ross
British doctor, Nobel laureate, writer, and artist (1857–1932)
Iris Murdoch
Irish-born British writer and philosopher (1919–1999)
Brian Aldiss
British science fiction writer (1925–2017)
Noor Inayat Khan
WW2 SOE British agent (1914–1944)
Edith Sitwell
British poet (1887-1964)
Erich Fried
Austrian writer (1921–1988)
Spike Milligan
British actor (1918-2002)
Carol Ann Duffy
Scottish poet and playwright (born 1955)
Bernardine Evaristo
British author and academic (1959-)
Jacob Bronowski
Polish-born British mathematician (1908–1974)
Marjorie Boulton
British writer (1924–2017)
John Brunner
British author (1934–1995)
Denise Levertov
British-American poet (1923-1997)
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Jamaican dub poet
Annie Vivanti
Italian poet and writer (1866–1942)
Shamim Azad
British poet and writer
Joyce Mansour
Egyptian-French author, notable as a surrealist poet (1928–1986)
Elizabeth Jennings
English poet (1926-2001)
Hope Mirrlees
British poet, novelist, and translator (1887–1978)
Theodoros Stephanides
Greek-British poet, author, doctor, scientist and naturalist
Itzik Manger
Israeli Yiddish poet (1901-1969)
William Plomer
South African-British writer (1903–1973)
David Jones
painter and British modernist poet (1895-1974)
Peter Porter
Australian, British based poet (1929-2010)
Jane Arden
British film director, actress, screenwriter, playwright, active from the 1940s to the 1970s
Theodor Kramer
Austrian writer (1897-1958)
Cengiz Dağcı
Crimean Tatar novelist and poet
Beryl Gilroy
Guyanese writer (1924-2001)
Robert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart
British diplomat (1881-1957)
David William Parry
pastor, poet, author, essayist, theologist, TEDx speaker and dramaturge
Karen Gershon
British writer
Christine Brooke-Rose
British novelist and literary critic (1923–2012)
John Agard
Poet and playwright
Adam Fox
British poet and academic (1883–1977)
Hakim Ahmad Shuja
Pakistani Urdu and Persian poet (1893–1969)
John Gawsworth
British writer (1912–1970)
Patience Agbabi
British poet and performer (1965-) who emphasizes the spoken word
Philip Sherrard
British writer (1922-1995)
Adrian Henri
British poet (1932-2000)
Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum
Punjabi poet (1899–1978)
Bernard Kops
British writer (1926–2024)
Sybil Grant
noblewoman; British artist and writer (1879-1955)
Ronald Duncan
British writer, poet and playwright (1914–1982)
Martin Robertson
British classical archaeologist (1911-2004)
M. A. Griffiths
English poet (1947-2009)
Robert Ensor
British writer and historian (1877–1958)
Charles Hepburn Johnston
British diplomat (1912-1986)
M. C. Bradbrook
British literary scholar (1909-1993)
Ian Horobin
British politician (1899–1976)
Alma Strettell
British translator and poet
Christmas Humphreys
British barrister (1901–1983)