Male poets

23th Sultan of Ottoman Empire (1703–1730)

Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher (1923-1998)

Jānis Pliekšāns (11 September 1865 – 11 September 1929), known by his pseudonym Rainis, was a Latvian poet, playwright, translator, and politician. Rainis' works include the classic plays Uguns un nakts (Fire and Night, 1905) and Indulis un Ārija (Indulis and Ārija, 1911), and a highly regarded translation of Goethe's Faust. His works had a profound influence on the literary Latvian language, and the ethnic symbolism he employed in his major works has been central to Latvian nationalism.

President of Chechnya (1952-2004)

Tajik writer (1878-1954)

German writer of Baltic German origin (1751-1792)

Kazakhstani poet (1931–1976)

Azerbaijani-Soviet writer (1906-1956)

Ivorian writer and politician (1916–2019)

Hungarian writer (1804–1858)

Moldovan poet (1935–2009)

Zimbabwean poet and writer (1956–2015)

Luxembourgish poet (1820-1893)

Tajik poet (1945-2020)

Romanian writer (1888-1917)

Zimbabwean writer (1952-1987)

Czech poet, traveller, humanist and satiricist

Barbadian poet (1930–2020)

Mongolian writer (born 1944)

Kazakhstani poet (1894-1938)

writer and poet (1936-2015)

South African poet and writer

Singaporean novelist, poet, and playwright

Panamanian writer (1882–1940)

Soviet poet (1904-1988)

Gagauz and Moldovan journalist, folklorist and poet

Soviet poet and critic (1899-1983)

Zimbabwean writer (1924-2005)

Equatoguinean writer

Guinea-Bissauan musician

writer and filmmaker (1941–1999)

Azerbaijani poet (1895-1965)

Tatar poet (1903-1945)

Guinean entertainer and politician (1921-1969)

Chinese writer and politician of Yi ethnicity

Cameroonian journalist (1973–2008)

Taiwanese poet, novelist, social activist (1894–1943)

Cameroonian writer and artist (1936-2009)

Luxembourgian journalist, author (1860-1940)

Russian poet (1930-2017)

Romanian writer (1916-1941)

Bissau-Guinean politician and writer

Barbadian novelist, essayist and poet (1927–2022)

Dutch-Surinamese writer and politician (1903-1996)

Ivorian acamedic, poet and short-story writer

Malian politician

Arab poet

Malian poet and filmmaker

Moldavian poet

Moldovan writer and politician (1912–1992)

Panamanian poet, essayist and photographer

Cameroonian-American writer

Moldovan politician

Panamanian writer, diplomat and journalist (1870-1914)

Kazakhstani poet

right|thumb|Varand Soukias Hacob Koorkchian (; , born March 10, 1954, in Tehran),better known by his pen name Varand () is an Iranian poet, playwright, lyricist, author, translator and painter of Armenian descent. He has published 27 collections of poetry since 1972.

Moldovan poet (1914–1993)

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Ivorian poet

Mauritanian writer