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British male essayists

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)
T. S. Eliot
US-British poet (1888–1965)
Karl Popper
Austrian-British philosopher of science and social and política e falsificationism and for criticism of Plato, Hegel and Marx as totalitarian opponents of open society (1902-1994)
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
Salman Rushdie
Indian-born British-American novelist (born 1947)
Harold Pinter
British playwright (1930–2008)
Thomas Robert Malthus
British political economist (1766–1834)
W. H. Auden
British-American poet (1907–1973)
David Attenborough
Sir David Frederick Attenborough is an English broadcaster, natural historian and writer. His presenting career began as host of Zoo Quest in 1954, and has spanned eight decades; it includes the nine documentary series forming The Life Collection, Natural World, Wildlife on One, the Planet Earth franchise, The Blue Planet and Blue Planet II. He is the only person to have won BAFTA Awards in black-and-white, colour, high-definition, 3D and 4K resolution. Over his life, he has collected dozens of honorary degrees and awards, including three Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator and one Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Daytime Personality - Non-Daily.
Arthur Koestler
Hungarian-British author and journalist (1905–1983)
Friedrich Max Müller
German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823–1900)
Michael Polanyi
Hungarian-British polymath (1891–1976)
Paul Davies
British physicist (1946-)
Samuel Alexander
Australian-born British philosopher (1859-1938)
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Jamaican dub poet
Gilbert Murray
Anglo-Australian scholar (1866-1957)
Adam Curtis
British documentary filmmaker (born 1955)
Maurice Baring
British dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist (1874-1945)
Keith Waterhouse
British writer (1929–2009)
Caryl Phillips
Kittian-British writer (born 1958)
David Pearce
British transhumanist philosopher (born 1959)
Henry Francis Cary
Gibraltarian translator (1772-1844)
John Stuart Blackie
Scottish scholar and man of letters (1809–1895)
Gareth Evans
British philosopher (1946–1980)
John Bellers
British activist
Aaron Hill
British writer (1685-1750)
David Miller
philosopher
Pico Iyer
British writer
James D. A. Boyle
Scottish legal academic
Ian Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar
British politician (1926-2007)
Christopher Reid
British poet
James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
British hispanist (1858–1923)
William Mudford
British journalist and writer
Hubert Crackanthorpe
British writer (1870–1896)
Robert Plumer Ward
British politician
Adam Phillips
British psychologist
Karl Miller
British journalist (1931–2014)
Guy Thorne
English journalist and novelist (1876-1923)
Paul Du Noyer
Music journalist and author
Peter Sherwood
Hungarian writer, linguist, translator, lexicographer, and critic
Martin Cohen
British philosopher