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The list Famous Poets includes William S. Tribell, Maya Angelou, Adam O'Riordan, Langston Hughes and Sylvia Plath. The list consists of 10,233 members.
  • 1.

    William S. Tribell
    American poet (born 1977)
    William S. Tribell
    Overview: William Stephen Tribell (born August 15, 1977) is an American poet. His work has appeared in a number of anthologies, magazines and journals and online under the pseudonyms Walton S. Tissot, and Wilbur ...
    Date of birth: 15 August 1977
    Age: 47
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)
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    Works banned in China 51T
    Film producers from Kentucky 16T
    21st-century American male writers 3,233T
  • 2.

    Maya Angelou
    American poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928–2014)
    Maya Angelou
    Overview: Maya Angelou ( ANN-jəl-oh; born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of ...
    Date of birth: 4 April 1928
    Date of death: 28 May 2014
    Age: 86 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Female
    Height: 6' (183 cm)
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    American inaugural poets 5T
    American women memoirists 620T
    African-American memoirists 19T
  • 3.

    Adam O'Riordan
    British, Poet
    Adam O'Riordan
    Date of birth: 1982
    Age: 42
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Male
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    Langston Hughes
    American writer and social activist (1901–1967)
    Langston Hughes
    Overview: James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the t ...
    Date of birth: 1 February 1902
    Date of death: 22 May 1967
    Age: 65 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)
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    Broadway composers and lyricists 196T
    Translators of Gabriela Mistral 4T
    20th-century American male writers 6,911T
  • 5.

    Sylvia Plath
    American poet and writer (1932–1963)
    Sylvia Plath
    Overview: Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of ...
    Date of birth: 27 October 1932
    Date of death: 11 February 1963
    Age: 30 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)
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    1963 suicides 28T
    American women writers who committed suicide 22T
    People from Jamaica Plain 93T
  • 6.
    Kavimani Desigavinayagam Pillai
    Overview: Kavimani Desigavinayagam Pillai (Tamil: கவிமணி தேசிகவிநாயகம் பிள்ளை; 27 July 1876 – 26 September 1954) was an eminent Tamil poet. He was born in the southern district of Tamil Nadu in Kanniyakumari district ...
    Date of birth: 27 July 1876
    Date of death: 26 September 1954
    Age: 78 (age at death)
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Male
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    19th-century Indian poets 158T
    Poets from Tamil Nadu 72T
    20th-century Indian poets 1,196T
  • 7.

    Scarlett Sabet
    English poet
    Scarlett Sabet
    Overview: Scarlett Sabet (born 1 July 1989) is a poet and performer based in London. She is the author of four poetry collections, Rocking Underground (2014), The Lock And The Key (2016), Zoreh (2018), and Camille ...
    Date of birth: 1 July 1989
    Age: 35
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)
    Partner: Jimmy Page (Long-Term)
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    21st-century English women 950T
    20th-century English women 1,361T
    21st-century English poets 98T
  • 8.

    Ted Hughes
    Poet
    Ted Hughes
    Overview: Edward James Hughes OM OBE FRSL (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation, and one ...
    Date of birth: 17 August 1930
    Date of death: 28 October 1998
    Age: 68 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 6" (198 cm)
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    T. S. Eliot Prize winners 36T
    Writers from Yorkshire 67T
    Ted Hughes 11T
  • 9.

    T.S. Eliot
    US-born British poet (1888–1965)
    T.S. Eliot
    Overview: Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Considered one of the 20th century's major poets, he is a central ...
    Date of birth: 26 September 1888
    Date of death: 4 January 1965
    Age: 76 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)
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    Converts to Anglicanism from Unitarianism 4T
    Anglo-Catholic poets 6T
    Nobel laureates affiliated with Missouri 35T
  • 10.

    Hadaa Sendoo
    Mongolian Poet
    Hadaa Sendoo
    Overview: Hadaa Sendoo (Mongolian: Сэндоогийн Хадаа; born 24 October 1961) is a Mongolian poet and translator. He is founder and leading figure of the World Poetry Almanac. In 2006, he established the World Poetry ...
    Date of birth: 24 October 1961
    Age: 62
    Nationality: Mongolian
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Male
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    21st-century Mongolian poets 2T
    20th-century Mongolian poets 7T
    Mongolian translators 4T
  • 11.

    G. S. Shivarudrappa
    Indian writer
    G. S. Shivarudrappa
    Overview: Guggari Shanthaveerappa Shivarudrappa (7 February 1926 – 23 December 2013), commonly known as G. S. Shivarudrappa, was an Indian Kannada poet, writer and researcher who was awarded the title of Rashtrakavi ...
    Date of birth: 7 February 1926
    Date of death: 23 December 2013
    Age: 87 (age at death)
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century Indian male writers 1,202T
    Bangalore University faculty 18T
    Poets from Karnataka 74T
  • 12.

    Gona Budda Reddy
    Indian, Poet
    Gona Budda Reddy
    Overview: Gona Budda Reddy, also known as Ranganatha (13th century CE), was a poet and ruler living in southern India.
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Male
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    Poets from Telangana 9T
    13th-century Indian poets 7T
    Poets from Andhra Pradesh 79T
  • 13.

    Vallathol Narayana Menon
    Indian poet (1878–1958)
    Vallathol Narayana Menon
    Overview: Vallathol Narayana Menon (16 October 1878 – 13 March 1958) was a poet in the Malayalam language, which is spoken in the south Indian state of Kerala. He was one of the triumvirate poets of modern Malayalam ...
    Date of birth: 1878
    Date of death: 1 March 1958
    Age: 79 (age at death)
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century Indian male writers 1,202T
    Deaf people from India 18T
    Indian Sanskrit scholars 141T
  • 14.

    Subramanya Bharathi
    India's Greatest Poet of 20 th Century
    Subramanya Bharathi
    Overview: Subramanian Bharathi also known as Priyadharshini (11 December 1882 – 11 September 1921), was a Tamil writer, poet, journalist, Indian independence activist, social reformer and polyglot. Popularly known ...
    Date of birth: 11 December 1882
    Date of death: 11 September 1921
    Age: 38 (age at death)
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Male
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    Indian male poets 973T
    Poets from Tamil Nadu 54T
    Indian social reformers 181T
  • 15.

    Nikki Giovanni
    American, Poet
    Nikki Giovanni
    Date of birth: 7 June 1943
    Age: 81
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Female
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    Heathcote Williams
    British actor and writer
    Heathcote Williams
    Overview: John Henley Heathcote-Williams (15 November 1941 – 1 July 2017), known as Heathcote Williams, was an English poet, actor, political activist and dramatist. He wrote a number of book-length polemical poems ...
    Date of birth: 15 November 1945
    Date of death: 1 July 2017
    Age: 71 (age at death)
    Nationality: English
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century squatters 122T
    20th-century English male artists 1,143T
    21st-century English male artists 348T
  • 17.

    Natalie Barney
    Writer and salonist
    Natalie Barney
    Overview: Natalie Clifford Barney (October 31, 1876 – February 2, 1972) was an American playwright, poet and novelist who lived as an expatriate in Paris.
    Date of birth: 31 October 1876
    Date of death: 2 February 1972
    Age: 95 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Female
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    American writers in French 39T
    Novelists from Ohio 259T
    American salon-holders 11T
  • 18.

    Sergei Esenin
    russian writer
    Sergei Esenin
    Overview: Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin (sometimes spelled as Esenin; Russian: Серге́й Алекса́ндрович Есе́нин, 3 October [O.S. 21 September] 1895 – 28 December 1925) was a Russian lyric poet. He is one ...
    Date of birth: 21 September 1895
    Date of death: 28 December 1925
    Age: 30 (age at death)
    Nationality: Russian
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Male
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    1925 suicides 26T
    20th-century Russian male writers 393T
    20th-century male writers 5,043T
  • 19.

    Lord Douglas
    English poet and journalist (1870–1945)
    Lord Douglas
    Overview: Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945) was a British poet and journalist best known as the lover of Oscar Wilde.
    Date of birth: 22 October 1870
    Date of death: 20 March 1945
    Age: 74 (age at death)
    Nationality: English
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Male
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    People from Lancing, West Sussex 12T
    LGBT nobility 25T
    English conspiracy theorists 38T
  • 20.

    Vandana Khanna
    American, Poet
    Vandana Khanna
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Female
    Partner: Jason George (Married)
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