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Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844-1900)
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
Simone de Beauvoir
French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
Martin Heidegger
German philosopher (1889–1976)
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906–1989)
Hannah Arendt
German-American political theorist and philosopher (1906–1975)
William James
American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist (1842–1910)
Kenzaburō Ōe
Japanese writer and Nobel Laureate (1935–2023)
Karl Jaspers
German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (1883–1969)
Jean-Luc Godard
French and Swiss film director (1930–2022)
José Ortega y Gasset
Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist (1883–1955)
Emil Cioran
Romanian-French philosopher and essayist (1911–1995)
Anne Rice
American writer
Frantz Fanon
French West Indian psychiatrist and philosopher (1925–1961)
Sasha Grey
American actress, model, writer, DJ and musician; former pornographic actress (born 1988)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
French phenomenological philosopher
Joss Whedon
American director, screenwriter, and producer (born 1964)
Jacques Maritain
French philosopher (1882–1973)
Ralph Ellison
American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer (1914-1994)
Richard Wright
American novelist and poet (1908–1960)
Lev Shestov
Russian existentialist philosopher (1866 – 1938)
Maria Dąbrowska
Polish writer (1889–1965)
Ágnes Heller
Hungarian philosopher and academic
Paul Bowles
American composer and writer (1910–1999)
Alexandre Kojève
Russian-born French philosopher and statesman
Hans Jonas
German philosopher (1903–1993)
Nicolai Hartmann
German philosopher (1882–1950)
Nicola Abbagnano
Italian existential philosopher (1901-1990)
Mulla Sadra
17th-century Iranian Shia philosopher and theologian
Peter Wessel Zapffe
Norwegian philosopher, mountaineer, and author (1899–1990)
Siegfried Kracauer
German writer, journalist, sociologist, cultural critic, and film theorist (1889-1966)
Colin Wilson
British writer and philosopher (1931–2013)
Stig Dagerman
Swedish writer (1923–1954)
Carmen Laforet
Spanish author (1921-2004)
James Anthony Froude
English historian, novelist and biographer (1818–1894)
Hubert Dreyfus
American philosopher (1929–2017)
Jean Wahl
French philosopher (1888–1974)
Benjamin Fondane
Romanian-French writer (1898–1944)
Txillardegi
José Luis Álvarez Enparantza (27 September 1929 – 14 January 2012), better known by his pseudonym Txillardegi, was a Basque linguist, politician, and writer. He was born and raised in the Basque Country, and although he did not learn the Basque language until the age of 17, he later came to be considered one of the most influential figures in Basque nationalism and culture in the second half of the 20th century. He was one of the founders of ETA, but in 1967 he left because he did not agree with its political line.
Ladislav Klíma
Czech philosopher and bookwriter (1878–1928)
Hajime Tanabe
Japanese philosopher (1885–1962)
Quentin Meillassoux
French philosopher
Abdel Rahman Badawi
Egyptian academic, philosopher and poet (1917–2002)
Viktor Petrov
Ukrainian writer
Nae Ionescu
Romanian philosopher, logician, mathematician, professor, and journalist
Keiji Nishitani
Japanese philosopher (1900–1990)
Vytautas Mačernis
Lithuanian writer (1921–1944)
Marjorie Grene
American philosopher (1910–2009)
Jan Balabán
Czech writer and translator (1961–2010)
Dagfinn Føllesdal
Norwegian philosopher
Petar Šegedin
Croatian writer (1909–1998)
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Scottish writer (1801–1866)
Reza Davari Ardakani
Iranian philosopher
Rudi Supek
Croatian sociologist (1913–1993)
Werner Marx
German philosopher (1910-1994)
Albert Caraco
French-Uruguayan philosopher
Pavlo Movchan
Ukrainian poet
Emil Botta
Romanian actor and poet (1911–1977)