Male biographers

British statesman (1804–1881)

Bohemian-Israeli author, composer, and journalist (1884–1968)

Flemish painter, poet and art historian (1548–1606)

German writer (1881-1948)

British historian & peace activist (1924-1993)

Iranian Poet, writer, historian, scholar and politician

Romanian-French writer (1898–1944)

historian

Associate, secretary, and early biographer of Ludwig van Beethoven (1795-1864)

Brazilian poet (1944–1989)

Byron's mistress (1800–1873)

12th-century Arab-Sicilian philosopher and politician

Argentine journalist, historian and writer (1927-2018)

Spanish polymath (1862–1924)

Brazilian author and journalist

Biographer, poet and writer

Brazilian journalist

Chinese science fiction writer (1940-2020)

British art critic, writer and curator (born 1933)

Hungarian-Spanish writer (1890–1970)

South African writer (1897-1976)

Venezuelan writer

politician, writer (1887-1966)

German biographer and Holocaust survivor (1912–1974)

Jordanian historian (1919–2008)

Argentine lawyer, writer and historian (1857–1914)

Judaism researcher (1874-1946)

Wallachian scholar, poet, and statesman

Chinese writer (1918-2012)

American writer, translator and opinion journalist

Italian biographer (1570-1654)

Brazilian polymath (1947–2025)

Argentine writer (1924-2006)

Russian poet, prose writer, film director, historian of literature and music

Romanian literary historian and literary critic (1866-1934)

Romanian-American academic

jurist and confidant of King Carol I

Romanian lawyer, politician and journalist

Wallachian-born Romanian folklorist, literary historian and journalist

Norwegian politician (1898-1987)

writer