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Top 100 writers & artists of all time
The top 100 writers & artists of all time, ranked by everyone, one head-to-head pick at a time.
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- Leonardo da Vinci 1452–1519
- William Shakespeare 1564–1616
- Vincent van Gogh 1853–1890
- Homer 900–800 BC
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749–1832
- Charles Dickens 1812–1870
- J. R. R. Tolkien 1892–1973
- Michelangelo 1475–1564
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821–1881
- Dante Alighieri 1265–1321
- Agatha Christie 1890–1976
- Leo Tolstoy 1828–1910
- Edgar Allan Poe 1809–1849
- Gabriel García Márquez 1927–2014
- Victor Hugo 1802–1885
- Raphael 1483–1520
- Anne Frank 1929–1945
- Voltaire 1694–1778
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900–1944
- Claude Monet 1840–1926
- Alexander Pushkin 1799–1837
- Rembrandt 1606–1669
- Hans Christian Andersen 1805–1875
- Miguel de Cervantes 1547–1616
- Nikolai Gogol 1809–1852
- Andy Warhol 1928–1987
- Niccolò Machiavelli 1469–1527
- Oscar Wilde 1854–1900
- Jane Austen 1775–1817
- James Joyce 1882–1941
- Arthur Conan Doyle 1859–1930
- Rabindranath Tagore 1861–1941
- Peter Paul Rubens 1577–1640
- Frida Kahlo 1907–1954
- Alexandre Dumas 1802–1870
- Caravaggio 1571–1610
- Virgil 69–18 BC
- Helen Keller 1880–1968
- Ovid 42 BC–17 AD
- Émile Zola 1840–1902
- Franz Kafka 1883–1924
- Stephen King 1947–
- Sophocles 495–405 BC
- George Orwell 1903–1950
- Pablo Picasso 1881–1973
- J. K. Rowling 1965–
- Isaac Asimov 1920–1992
- Salvador Dalí 1904–1989
- Marcel Proust 1871–1922
- Lord Byron 1788–1824
- H. G. Wells 1866–1946
- Albert Camus 1913–1960
- Anton Chekhov 1860–1904
- Honoré de Balzac 1799–1850
- Jules Verne 1828–1905
- Jonathan Swift 1667–1745
- Virginia Woolf 1882–1941
- George R. R. Martin 1948–
- Rumi 1207–1273
- Henri Matisse 1869–1954
- Søren Kierkegaard 1813–1855
- Frank Lloyd Wright 1867–1959
- Le Corbusier 1887–1965
- Thomas Mann 1875–1955
- Umberto Eco 1932–2016
- Emily Brontë 1818–1848
- Ernest Hemingway 1899–1961
- Molière 1622–1673
- Coco Chanel 1883–1971
- Hesiod 775–700 BC
- Antoni Gaudí 1852–1926
- Aesop 619–563 BC
- Wassily Kandinsky 1866–1944
- Mario Vargas Llosa 1936–2025
- Mark Twain 1835–1910
- Toni Morrison 1931–2019
- Friedrich Schiller 1759–1805
- Maxim Gorky 1868–1936
- Federico García Lorca 1898–1936
- Walter Scott 1771–1832
- Emily Dickinson 1830–1886
- Sarah Bernhardt 1844–1923
- Francisco Goya 1746–1828
- Diego Velázquez 1599–1660
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1841–1919
- Sandro Botticelli 1445–1510
- Pliny the Elder 20–79
- Hermann Hesse 1877–1962
- William Blake 1757–1827
- Pier Paolo Pasolini 1922–1975
- Albrecht Dürer 1471–1528
- Mary Shelley 1797–1851
- Jack London 1876–1916
- Solon 629–559 BC
- Aleister Crowley 1875–1947
- Walt Disney 1901–1966
- George Sand 1804–1876
- Vladimir Nabokov 1899–1977
- Rainer Maria Rilke 1875–1926
- William Faulkner 1897–1962
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