British cultural critics

The list British cultural critics includes Virginia Woolf, Christopher Hitchens, H.G. Wells, Bertrand Russell and Thomas Paine. The list consists of 26 members.

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Virginia Woolf

English modernist writer (1882–1941)

Overview: Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th century authors and also a pioneer in the use ...

Date of birth: 25 January 1882

Date of death: 28 March 1941

Age: 59 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Author

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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Pipe smokers 77T

Lost Generation writers 38T

20th-century LGBT people 3,252T
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Christopher Hitchens

British author and journalist (1949–2011)

Overview: Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was an English-American author, columnist, essayist, orator, journalist, and social critic. Hitchens was the author, co-author, editor, or ...

Date of birth: 13 April 1949

Date of death: 15 December 2011

Age: 62 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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New Atheism 31T

Jewish American atheism activists 8T

Deaths from pneumonia in Texas 44T
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H.G. Wells

English writer (1866–1946)

Overview: Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography ...

Date of birth: 21 September 1866

Date of death: 13 August 1946

Age: 79 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Cycling writers 68T

British anti-capitalists 25T

Wells family 5T
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Bertrand Russell

British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)

Overview: Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell OM FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British polymath, philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist ...

Date of birth: 18 May 1872

Date of death: 2 February 1970

Age: 97 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Male

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Residents of Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park 9T

19th-century English non-fiction writers 173T

20th-century English non-fiction writers 123T
5.

Thomas Paine

Pamphleteer

Overview: Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain; February 9, 1737 [O.S. January 29, 1736] – June 8, 1809) was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary ...

Date of birth: 9 February 1737

Date of death: 8 June 1809

Age: 72 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Author

Gender: Male

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American classical liberals 22T

Writers from New Rochelle, New York 93T

Activists from New Rochelle, New York 22T
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Adam Smith

Scottish economist and philosopher (1723–1790)

Overview: Adam Smith (baptized 16 June [O.S. 5 June] 1723 – 17 July 1790) was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the thinking of political economy and key figure during the Scottish ...

Date of birth: 5 June 1723

Date of death: 17 July 1790

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Male

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Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts 230T

British male non-fiction writers 73T

Philosophers of economics 73T
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David Hume

Scottish philosopher (1711–1776)

Overview: David Hume (born David Home; 7 May 1711 NS – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential ...

Date of birth: 26 April 1711

Date of death: 25 August 1776

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Male

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Scottish ethicists 8T

Philosophers of economics 73T

18th-century British philosophers 19T
8.

Karl Popper

Austrian-British philosopher of science

Overview: Sir Karl Raimund Popper CH FBA FRS (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian-British philosopher, academic and social commentator.

Date of birth: 28 July 1902

Date of death: 17 September 1994

Age: 92 (age at death)

Nationality: Austrian

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Male

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Jewish economists 9T

Jewish ethicists 41T

20th-century Austrian philosophers 41T
9.

Kwame Anthony Appiah

British American philosopher and writer (born 1954)

Overview: Kwame Akroma-Ampim Kusi Anthony Appiah ( AP-ee-ah; born 8 May 1954) is a British-Ghanaian philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist whose interests include political and moral theory, the philosophy ...

Date of birth: 8 May 1954

Age: 71

Nationality: American

Occupation: Philosopher

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Academics from London 74T

Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 84T

Presidents of the American Philosophical Association 35T
10.

Jeremy Bentham

British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748–1832)

Overview: Jeremy Bentham (15 February 1748 [O.S. 4 February 1747] – 6 June 1832) was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism.

Date of birth: 15 February 1748

Date of death: 6 June 1832

Age: 84 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Male

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Radicals 8T

18th-century English non-fiction writers 152T

History of University College London 4T
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George Monbiot

English writer and political activist

Overview: George Joshua Richard Monbiot ( MON-bee-oh; born 27 January 1963) is a British writer known for his environmental and political activism. He writes a weekly column for The Guardian, and is the author of ...

Date of birth: 27 January 1963

Age: 62

Nationality: French

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Rewilding advocates 2T

Climate activists 121T

People associated with criticism of economic growth 19T
12.

John Stuart Mill

English philosopher

Overview: John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 7 May 1873), usually cited as J. S. Mill, was an English philosopher, political economist, and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of classical ...

Date of birth: 20 May 1806

Date of death: 8 May 1873

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Female

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Radicals 8T

National Society for Women's Suffrage 27T

British male non-fiction writers 73T
13.

Charles Kay Ogden

English linguist, philosopher and writer

Overview: Charles Kay Ogden (1 June 1889 – 20 March 1957) was an English linguist, philosopher, and writer. Described as a polymath but also an eccentric and outsider, he took part in many ventures related to l ...

Date of birth: 1 June 1889

Date of death: 21 March 1957

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Male

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20th-century English non-fiction writers 123T

20th-century English male writers 1,328T

20th-century English philosophers 57T
14.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

English poet, literary critic and philosopher (1772–1834)

Overview: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic ...

Date of birth: 21 October 1772

Date of death: 25 July 1834

Age: 61 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Male

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British male non-fiction writers 73T

Philosophers of literature 95T

English male non-fiction writers 1,748T
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Raymond Williams

Welsh scholar, critic and Marxist (1921–1988)

Overview: Raymond Henry Williams (31 August 1921 – 26 January 1988) was a Welsh Marxist theorist, academic, novelist and critic influential within the New Left and in wider culture. His writings on politics, culture ...

Date of birth: 31 August 1921

Date of death: 26 January 1988

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: Welsh

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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British anti-capitalists 25T

Ecosocialists 12T

Philosophers of literature 95T
16.

Iain King

Philosopher

Overview: Iain Benjamin King CBE FRSA is a British writer. King was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Birthday Honours, for services to governance in Libya, Afghanistan and Kosovo ...

Nationality: British

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Male

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21st-century English male writers 486T

21st-century British philosophers 95T

21st-century British male writers 720T
17.

Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton

British philosopher

Overview: Anthony Meredith Quinton, Baron Quinton, FBA (25 March 1925 – 19 June 2010) was a British political and moral philosopher, metaphysician, and materialist philosopher of mind.

Date of birth: 25 March 1925

Date of death: 19 June 2010

Age: 85 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Male

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British male non-fiction writers 73T

British male essayists 86T

21st-century British non-fiction writers 117T
18.

Ziauddin Sardar

Pakistani orientalist

Overview: Ziauddin Sardar (Urdu: ضیاء الدین سردار‎; born 31 October 1951) is a British-Pakistani scholar, award-winning writer, cultural critic and public intellectual who specialises in Muslim thought, the ...

Date of birth: 31 October 1951

Age: 73

Nationality: British

Occupation: Critic

Gender: Male

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20th-century English male writers 1,328T

20th-century British male writers 1,407T

British academics of Pakistani descent 12T
19.

Bryan Magee

British politician (1930-2019)

Overview: Bryan Edgar Magee (12 April 1930 – 26 July 2019) was a British philosopher, broadcaster, politician and author, best known for bringing philosophy to a popular audience.

Date of birth: 12 April 1930

Date of death: 26 July 2019

Age: 89 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Philosopher

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2019 deaths 9,204T

2019 deaths 6,613T

Philosophers of logic 129T
20.

Tibor Fischer

British writer

Overview: Tibor Fischer (born 15 November 1959) is a British novelist and short story writer. In 1993, he was selected by the literary magazine Granta as one of the 20 best young British writers while his novel ...

Date of birth: 15 November 1959

Age: 65

Nationality: Hungarian

Occupation: Critic

Gender: Male

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21st-century English male writers 486T

20th-century English male writers 1,328T

21st-century British male writers 720T