All people, A to Z
1,510 people quoted
- Frank Abagnale born 1948 1
- Edward Abbey 1927–1989 23
- Abraham 1813–1638 BC 1
- Chinua Achebe 1930–2013 1
- Diane Ackerman born 1948 2
- Carlo Acutis 1991–2006 1
- Abigail Adams 1744–1818 7
- Ansel Adams 1902–1984 16
- Douglas Adams 1952–2001 27
- James Truslow Adams 1878–1949 1
- John Adams 1735–1826 34
- John Quincy Adams 1767–1848 5
- Samuel Adams 1722–1803 15
- Scott Adams 1957–2026 7
- Jane Addams 1860–1935 3
- Joseph Addison 1672–1719 51
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie born 1977 9
- Felix Adler 1851–1933 18
- L. K. Advani born 1927 1
- Aeschylus 525–456 BC 6
- Aesop 620–564 BC 16
- Ben Affleck born 1972 1
- Spiro Agnew 1918–1996 2
- Christina Aguilera born 1980 1
- Madeleine Albright 1937–2022 2
- Louisa May Alcott 1832–1888 10
- Alan Alda born 1936 2
- Robert Alden 1
- Ali 599–661 4
- Muhammad Ali 1942–2016 16
- Dante Alighieri 1265–1321 14
- Ethan Allen 1738–1789 1
- Fred Allen 1894–1956 7
- Woody Allen born 1935 34
- Isabel Allende born 1942 5
- Louis Althusser 1918–1990 1
- Sam Altman born 1985 3
- B. R. Ambedkar 1891–1956 1
- Idi Amin 1925–2003 1
- Martin Amis 1949–2023 12
- Gillian Anderson born 1968 4
- J.D. Anderson 1
- Pamela Anderson born 1967 1
- Mario Andretti born 1940 1
- Julie Andrews born 1935 3
- Maya Angelou 1928–2014 5
- Jennifer Aniston born 1969 1
- Kofi Annan 1938–2018 2
- John Anster 1793–1867 1
- Susan B. Anthony 1820–1906 10
- Marie Antoinette 1755–1793 1
- Chris Antonak 1
- Christina Applegate born 1971 1
- Thomas Aquinas 1225–1274 10
- Hannah Arendt 1906–1975 10
- Aristophanes 446–386 BC 3
- Aristotle 384–322 BC 65
- Neil Armstrong 1930–2012 3
- Elizabeth von Arnim 1866–1941 1
- Matthew Arnold 1822–1888 24
- Antonin Artaud 1896–1948 1
- Arthur Ashe 1943–1993 1
- Isaac Asimov 1920–1992 26
- Julian Assange born 1971 1
- Francis of Assisi 1182–1226 1
- Fred Astaire 1899–1987 2
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1881–1938 3
- David Attenborough born 1926 5
- Margaret Atwood born 1939 10
- W. H. Auden 1907–1973 19
- Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945 6
- Aurangzeb 1618–1707 1
- Marcus Aurelius 121–180 24
- Sri Aurobindo 1872–1950 18
- Jane Austen 1775–1817 77
- Teresa of Ávila 1515–1582 6
- Roger Babson 1875–1967 1
- Lauren Bacall 1924–2014 5
- Richard Bach born 1936 19
- Jim Backus 1913–1989 1
- Francis Bacon 1561–1626 25
- Joan Baez born 1941 3
- Philip James Bailey 1816–1902 11
- Russell Baker 1925–2019 4
- Mikhail Bakunin 1814–1876 5
- Alec Baldwin born 1958 1
- James Baldwin 1924–1987 20
- Lucille Ball 1911–1989 4
- Steve Ballmer born 1956 2
- Honoré de Balzac 1799–1850 10
- Maria Bamford born 1970 3
- Ray Bandy 1
- Tallulah Bankhead 1902–1968 5
- Iain Banks 1954–2013 8
- Banksy born 1973 2
- Richard Harris Barham 1788–1845 1
- Clive Barnes 1927–2008 1
- Sacha Baron Cohen born 1971 1
- Roseanne Barr born 1952 1
- J. M. Barrie 1860–1937 25
- Jonah Barrington born 1941 1
- Dave Barry born 1947 100
- John Barrymore 1882–1942 1
- Joseph Barth 1
- Roland Barthes 1915–1980 3
- John Bartlett 1820–1905 1
- Bruce Fairchild Barton 1886–1967 1
- Bernard Baruch 1870–1965 6
- Jean-Michel Basquiat 1960–1988 1
- Katharine Lee Bates 1859–1929 3
- Charles Baudelaire 1821–1867 6
- Jean Baudrillard 1929–2007 5
- L. Frank Baum 1856–1919 14
- Pierre Beaumarchais 1732–1799 2
- Simone de Beauvoir 1908–1986 10
- Samuel Beckett 1906–1989 8
- Henry Ward Beecher 1813–1887 15
- Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827 3
- Hada Bejar 1
- Alexander Graham Bell 1847–1922 5
- Robert Bellarmine 1542–1621 1
- Hilaire Belloc 1870–1953 2
- Saul Bellow 1915–2005 15
- Robert Benchley 1889–1945 3
- Pope Benedict XVI 1927–2022 3
- Walter Benjamin 1892–1940 9
- Ernest Benn 1875–1954 1
- Tony Benn 1925–2014 1
- Jack Benny 1894–1974 1
- Jeremy Bentham 1748–1832 6
- Thomas Berger born 1959 1
- Cyrano de Bergerac 1619–1655 3
- George Berkeley 1685–1753 3
- Hector Berlioz 1803–1869 1
- Silvio Berlusconi 1936–2023 1
- Edward Bernays 1891–1995 3
- Tim Berners-Lee born 1955 4
- Yogi Berra 1925–2015 25
- Halle Berry born 1966 1
- Wendell Berry 1934–2026 16
- Pierre Berton 1920–2004 1
- Annie Besant 1847–1933 5
- Aneurin Bevan 1897–1960 7
- Beyoncé born 1981 1
- Jeff Bezos born 1964 1
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto 1928–1979 4
- The Bible (King James Version) 87
- Joe Biden born 1942 3
- Ambrose Bierce 1842–1914 88
- Josh Billings 1818–1885 12
- Osama bin Laden 1957–2011 5
- Laurence Binyon 1869–1943 1
- Otto von Bismarck 1815–1898 6
- Björk born 1965 1
- Harry Blackmun 1908–1999 3
- James G. Blaine 1830–1893 1
- Tim Blair born 1965 1
- Tony Blair born 1953 1
- William Blake 1757–1827 36
- Helena Blavatsky 1831–1891 1
- Marguerite Gardiner Blessington 1789–1849 1
- Karen Blixen 1885–1962 3
- Arthur Bloch born 1948 1
- Amy Bloom born 1953 2
- Paul Boese 1
- Humphrey Bogart 1899–1957 1
- Niels Bohr 1885–1962 9
- Anne Boleyn 1501–1536 1
- Simón Bolívar 1783–1830 2
- Erma Bombeck 1927–1996 11
- Helena Bonham Carter born 1966 1
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906–1945 10
- Bono born 1960 7
- William Borah 1865–1940 1
- Victor Borge 1909–2000 1
- Jorge Luis Borges 1899–1986 23
- Chadwick Boseman 1976–2020 2
- Anthony Bourdain 1956–2018 5
- Francis William Bourdillon 1852–1921 2
- Margaret Bourke-White 1904–1971 3
- David Bowie 1947–2016 4
- Chris Bowyer 4
- Jerry Bowyer born 1962 1
- Ray Bradbury 1920–2012 16
- Omar Bradley 1893–1981 5
- Marlon Brando 1924–2004 13
- Willy Brandt 1913–1992 3
- Charles F. Brannan 1903–1992 1
- Nachman of Bratslav 24
- Jacob Braude 1
- Wernher von Braun 1912–1977 4
- Bertolt Brecht 1898–1956 10
- John Briley 1925–2019 1
- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin 1755–1826 1
- Joseph Brodsky 1940–1996 5
- Charlotte Brontë 1816–1855 15
- Emily Brontë 1818–1848 18
- Rupert Brooke 1887–1915 1
- David Brooks born 1961 1
- Mel Brooks born 1926 3
- Goncourt brothers 3
- Heywood Broun 1888–1939 4
- Alton Brown born 1962 1
- Gene Brown 1
- James Brown 1933–2006 2
- John Brown 1800–1859 4
- Pam Brown 1
- Rita Mae Brown born 1944 4
- Sam Brown born 1943 1
- Merry Browne 1
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806–1861 9
- Robert Browning 1812–1889 35
- Jerry Bruckheimer born 1943 1
- Frank Bruno born 1961 1
- Giordano Bruno 1548–1600 3
- William Jennings Bryan 1860–1925 13
- William Cullen Bryant 1794–1878 1
- Zbigniew Brzezinski 1928–2017 2
- John Buchan 1875–1940 10
- James Buchanan 1791–1868 1
- Art Buchwald 1925–2007 3
- Pearl S. Buck 1892–1973 4
- William F. Buckley Jr. 1925–2008 7
- Gautama Buddha 501–501 BC 25
- Warren Buffett born 1930 8
- Charles Bukowski 1920–1994 7
- Sandra Bullock born 1964 2
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1803–1873 15
- Luis Buñuel 1900–1983 2
- John Bunyan 1628–1688 2
- Robert J. Burdette 1
- Abigail Van Buren 1
- Anthony Burgess 1917–1993 3
- Edmund Burke 1729–1797 57
- Leo Burke 1
- George Washington Burnap 1802–1859 1
- Frances Hodgson Burnett 1849–1924 6
- Bo Burnham born 1990 1
- George Burns 1896–1996 8
- Robert Burns 1759–1796 24
- William S. Burroughs 1914–1997 11
- Richard Francis Burton 1821–1890 8
- Barbara Bush 1925–2018 4
- George H. W. Bush 1924–2018 5
- George W. Bush born 1946 39
- Roger de Bussy-Rabutin 1618–1693 1
- Judith Butler born 1956 2
- Lord Byron 1788–1824 33
- Julius Caesar 100–44 BC 4
- Michael Caine born 1933 1
- John C. Calhoun 1782–1850 2
- James Callaghan 1912–2005 2
- John Calvin 1509–1564 11
- David Cameron born 1966 1
- W.J. Cameron 2
- William Bruce Cameron 1
- Queen Camilla born 1947 1
- Emile Cammaerts 1
- Bruce Campbell born 1958 1
- Joseph Campbell 1904–1987 4
- Thomas Campbell 1777–1844 1
- Albert Camus 1913–1960 38
- Jack Canfield born 1944 1
- Georg Cantor 1845–1918 1
- Al Capone 1899–1947 2
- Truman Capote 1924–1984 2
- George Carlin 1937–2008 22
- Tucker Carlson born 1969 1
- Thomas Carlyle 1795–1881 43
- Stokely Carmichael 1941–1998 3
- Andrew Carnegie 1835–1919 3
- Dale Carnegie 1888–1955 16
- Mark Carney born 1965 2
- Jimmy Carr born 1972 1
- John le Carré 1931–2020 1
- Jim Carrey born 1962 2
- Jonathan Carroll born 1949 1
- Lewis Carroll 1832–1898 48
- Ben Carson born 1951 5
- Johnny Carson 1925–2005 13
- Rachel Carson 1907–1964 16
- Jimmy Carter 1924–2024 14
- Giacomo Casanova 1725–1798 4
- John Cassavetes 2
- Carlos Castaneda 1925–1998 5
- Fidel Castro 1926–2016 5
- Willa Cather 1873–1947 16
- Catullus 84–54 BC 4
- Vint Cerf born 1943 2
- Miguel de Cervantes 1547–1616 7
- Paul Cézanne 1839–1906 1
- Neville Chamberlain 1869–1940 3
- Nicolas Chamfort 1740–1794 7
- Raymond Chandler 1888–1959 7
- Charlie Chaplin 1889–1977 5
- Charlemagne 747–814 1
- Charles III born 1948 3
- Ray Charles 1930–2004 2
- Geoffrey Chaucer 1343–1400 1
- Anton Chekhov 1860–1904 32
- Dick Cheney 1941–2025 8
- Cher born 1946 4
- G. K. Chesterton 1874–1936 94
- Shirley Chisholm 1924–2005 2
- Pema Chödrön born 1936 1
- Noam Chomsky born 1928 11
- Kate Chopin 1850–1904 4
- Jean Chrétien born 1934 2
- Agatha Christie 1890–1976 10
- Winston Churchill 1874–1965 90
- Colley Cibber 1671–1757 5
- Cicero 107–43 BC 20
- Emil Cioran 1911–1995 20
- Bernard of Clairvaux 1090–1153 3
- Tom Clancy 1947–2013 6
- Arthur C. Clarke 1917–2008 13
- J.F. Clarke 1810–1888 1
- Jeremy Clarkson born 1960 2
- Carl von Clausewitz 1780–1831 3
- James Clavell 1921–1994 3
- Henry Clay 1777–1852 5
- Matthew Clayfield 3
- Eldridge Cleaver 1935–1998 5
- John Cleese born 1939 4
- Roberto Clemente 1934–1972 1
- Grover Cleveland 1837–1908 3
- Hillary Clinton born 1947 7
- Bill Clinton born 1946 18
- George Clooney born 1961 2
- Arthur Hugh Clough 1819–1861 2
- Kurt Cobain 1967–1994 6
- Ty Cobb 1886–1961 1
- Jean Cocteau 1889–1963 14
- Paulo Coelho born 1947 16
- J. M. Coetzee born 1940 2
- Chapman Cohen 1868–1954 1
- Leonard Cohen 1934–2016 2
- Stephen Colbert born 1964 13
- Frank Moore Colby 1865–1925 8
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772–1834 31
- Colette 1873–1954 7
- Wilkie Collins 1824–1889 10
- Carlo Collodi 1826–1890 4
- Charles Caleb Colton 1777–1832 21
- Christopher Columbus 1451–1506 1
- Alex Comfort 1920–2000 1
- Confucius 551–479 BC 28
- William Congreve 1670–1729 9
- Sean Connery 1930–2020 1
- James Connolly 1868–1916 1
- Joseph Conrad 1857–1924 33
- John Constable 1776–1837 2
- Constitutional Convention 5
- Tim Cook born 1960 3
- Calvin Coolidge 1872–1933 39
- Alice Cooper born 1948 3
- James Fenimore Cooper 1789–1851 4
- Bill Cosby born 1937 20
- Ann Coulter born 1961 5
- William Cowper 1731–1800 2
- Brian Cox born 1968 2
- Stephen Crane 1871–1900 11
- Michael Crichton 1942–2008 4
- Oliver Cromwell 1599–1658 6
- Russell Crowe born 1964 2
- Aleister Crowley 1875–1947 10
- Billy Crystal born 1948 1
- Countee Cullen 1903–1946 1
- E. E. Cummings 1894–1962 3
- Marie Curie 1867–1934 3
- John Philpot Curran 1750–1817 2
- Wayne Dyer 1940–2015 8
- Isaac D'Israeli 1766–1848 10
- Roald Dahl 1916–1990 2
- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama born 1935 18
- Salvador Dalí 1904–1989 6
- Rodney Dangerfield 1921–2004 4
- Clarence Darrow 1857–1938 18
- Charles Darwin 1809–1882 22
- Ram Dass 1931–2019 1
- Robertson Davies 1913–1995 13
- William Henry Davies 1871–1940 1
- Adelle Davis 1904–1974 1
- Angela Davis born 1944 2
- Jim Davis born 1945 1
- Richard Dawkins born 1941 15
- Daniel Day-Lewis born 1957 1
- Walter de la Mare 1873–1956 1
- Robert De Niro born 1943 3
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900–1944 6
- Dizzy Dean 1910–1974 1
- James Dean 1931–1955 1
- Eugene V. Debs 1855–1926 21
- Daniel Defoe 1660–1731 11
- Edgar Degas 1834–1917 4
- Ellen DeGeneres born 1958 1
- Jerry Della Femina born 1936 1
- Democritus 460–360 BC 4
- John Denham 1615–1669 2
- Daniel Dennett 1942–2024 3
- René Descartes 1596–1650 3
- John Dewey 1859–1952 3
- Diana, Princess of Wales 1961–1997 5
- Philip K. Dick 1928–1982 11
- Charles Dickens 1812–1870 60
- Emily Dickinson 1830–1886 37
- Denis Diderot 1713–1784 15
- Edsger W. Dijkstra 1930–2002 5
- Annie Dillard 1945–2026 3
- Phyllis Diller 1917–2012 3
- Paul Dirac 1902–1984 4
- Walt Disney 1901–1966 8
- Benjamin Disraeli 1804–1881 36
- Cory Doctorow born 1971 4
- John Donne 1572–1631 25
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821–1881 55
- David Alfred Doudney 1811–1894 1
- Kirk Douglas 1916–2020 2
- Frederick Douglass 1817–1895 23
- Robert Downey Jr. born 1965 1
- Ernest Dowson 1867–1900 2
- Arthur Conan Doyle 1859–1930 34
- Peter Drucker 1909–2005 5
- Dinesh D'Souza born 1961 2
- W. E. B. Du Bois 1868–1963 11
- Hansell B. Duckett 1
- Alexandre Dumas 1802–1870 18
- Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872–1906 2
- Alexis Dupuy 1
- Will Durant 1885–1981 14
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1921–1990 1
- Robert Duvall 1931–2026 1
- Andrea Dworkin 1946–2005 1
- Henry van Dyke 1852–1933 4
- Bob Dylan born 1941 5
- Freeman Dyson 1923–2020 16
- Amelia Earhart 1897–1939 3
- Clint Eastwood born 1930 1
- Roger Ebert 1942–2013 15
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach 1830–1916 7
- Meister Eckhart 1260–1328 8
- Umberto Eco 1932–2016 7
- Thomas Edison 1847–1931 29
- Edward VIII 1894–1972 2
- Jonathan Edwards 1703–1758 3
- Adolf Eichmann 1906–1962 2
- Albert Einstein 1879–1955 95
- Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890–1969 71
- Mircea Eliade 1907–1986 2
- George Eliot 1819–1880 46
- T. S. Eliot 1888–1965 49
- Elizabeth I of England 1533–1603 4
- Elizabeth II 1926–2022 7
- Cass Elliot 1941–1974 1
- Bret Easton Ellis born 1964 1
- Havelock Ellis 1859–1939 3
- Harlan Ellison 1934–2018 4
- Larry Ellison born 1944 1
- Rahm Emanuel born 1959 1
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803–1882 102
- Friedrich Engels 1820–1895 7
- Charles I of England 1600–1649 2
- Enya born 1961 1
- Epicurus 342–270 BC 2
- Erasmus 1466–1536 4
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954 1
- Paul Erdős 1913–1996 3
- Euripides 481–407 BC 26
- Julius Evola 1898–1974 2
- Frantz Fanon 1925–1961 3
- Michael Faraday 1791–1867 5
- Warren Farrell born 1943 1
- William Faulkner 1897–1962 11
- William Feather 1889–1981 5
- James Feibleman 1
- Federico Fellini 1920–1993 8
- Alex Ferguson born 1941 1
- Niall Ferguson born 1964 4
- Richard Feynman 1918–1988 28
- Eugene Field 1850–1895 1
- Sally Field born 1946 1
- Totie Fields 1930–1978 1
- W. C. Fields 1880–1946 5
- Harvey Fierstein born 1952 1
- David Fincher born 1962 1
- Shulamith Firestone 1945–2012 6
- Bobby Fischer 1943–2008 2
- Carrie Fisher 1956–2016 3
- F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896–1940 32
- Penelope Fitzgerald 1916–2000 1
- Gustave Flaubert 1821–1880 15
- Ian Fleming 1908–1964 4
- Jane Fonda born 1937 3
- Malcolm Forbes 1919–1990 5
- Gerald Ford 1913–2006 11
- Harrison Ford born 1942 3
- Henry Ford 1863–1947 13
- E. M. Forster 1879–1970 29
- Harry Emerson Fosdick 1878–1969 7
- Michel Foucault 1926–1984 4
- Megan Fox born 1986 1
- Anatole France 1844–1924 23
- Pope Francis 1936–2025 2
- James Franco born 1978 1
- Anne Frank 1929–1945 5
- Viktor Frankl 1905–1997 4
- Benjamin Franklin 1706–1790 98
- Charles Frazier born 1950 1
- Morgan Freeman born 1937 3
- Paulo Freire 1921–1997 1
- Sigmund Freud 1856–1939 24
- Betty Friedan 1921–2006 3
- Milton Friedman 1912–2006 14
- Erich Fromm 1900–1980 16
- Robert Frost 1874–1963 59
- Francis Fukuyama born 1952 1
- Robert Fulghum born 1937 6
- Buckminster Fuller 1895–1983 22
- Thomas Fuller 1608–1661 5
- Zsa Zsa Gabor 1917–2016 5
- Peter Gabriel born 1950 1
- Muammar Gaddafi 1942–2011 1
- Lady Gaga born 1986 3
- Neil Gaiman born 1960 11
- Galileo Galilei 1564–1642 6
- Gallagher 1946–2022 2
- Vincent Gallo born 1961 1
- Indira Gandhi 1917–1984 4
- Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948 46
- Ed Gardner 1901–1963 1
- James A. Garfield 1831–1881 14
- Judy Garland 1922–1969 2
- Bill Gates born 1955 13
- Paul Gauguin 1848–1903 3
- Charles de Gaulle 1890–1970 13
- Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777–1855 3
- Charles Gavin 1
- Lou Gehrig 1903–1941 1
- David Gemmell 1948–2006 6
- George III 1738–1820 1
- Boy George born 1961 1
- Ricky Gervais born 1961 2
- Konrad von Gesner 1516–1565 1
- J. Paul Getty 1892–1976 1
- J. Ghetto 1
- Edward Gibbon 1737–1794 7
- Kahlil Gibran 1883–1931 37
- Mel Gibson born 1956 1
- William Gibson born 1948 2
- André Gide 1869–1951 14
- Carolyn Gifford 1
- Terry Gilliam born 1940 2
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1860–1935 4
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1933–2020 6
- Rudy Giuliani born 1944 1
- William Ewart Gladstone 1809–1898 5
- John Glenn 1921–2016 1
- Crispin Glover born 1964 1
- Jean-Luc Godard 1930–2022 2
- Joseph Goebbels 1897–1945 1
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749–1832 60
- Vincent van Gogh 1853–1890 8
- Whoopi Goldberg born 1955 1
- William Golding 1911–1993 1
- Emma Goldman 1869–1940 14
- Oliver Goldsmith 1728–1774 3
- Bobcat Goldthwait born 1962 1
- Barry Goldwater 1909–1998 4
- Samuel Goldwyn 1882–1974 8
- Jane Goodall 1934–2025 4
- Amy Goodman born 1957 1
- Roy Goodman 1930–2014 1
- Mikhail Gorbachev 1931–2022 5
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt born 1981 1
- Al Gore born 1948 6
- Hermann Göring 1893–1946 4
- Mia Goth born 1993 1
- Stephen Jay Gould 1941–2002 4
- Baltasar Gracián 1601–1658 22
- David Graeber 1961–2020 6
- Billy Graham 1918–2018 2
- Lindsey Graham 1955–2026 3
- Kenneth Grahame 1859–1932 8
- Philip L. Gramm 1
- Antonio Gramsci 1891–1937 3
- Ariana Grande born 1993 1
- Temple Grandin born 1947 2
- Marquis de La Grange 1
- Cary Grant 1904–1986 3
- Ulysses S. Grant 1822–1885 15
- Robert Graves 1895–1985 8
- Thomas Gray 1716–1771 2
- David Grayson 1870–1946 1
- Anthony the Great 251–357 2
- Seth Green born 1974 1
- Graham Greene 1904–1991 9
- Robert Greene born 1959 3
- Geof Greenleaf 1
- Germaine Greer born 1939 10
- Richard Grenier born 1952 1
- Fulke Greville 1554–1628 1
- Amanda Grier 1
- Angelina Grimké 1805–1879 2
- Brothers Grimm 6
- Dave Grohl born 1969 1
- M. Grundler 1
- Che Guevara 1928–1967 12
- Bryant Gumbel born 1948 1
- John Gunther 1901–1970 1
- Hafez 1326–1389 1
- Haile Selassie 1892–1975 8
- J. B. S. Haldane 1892–1964 4
- Nathan Hale 1755–1776 1
- Philip Hamerton 1834–1894 1
- Alexander Hamilton 1757–1804 17
- Robert M. Hamilton 1
- Dag Hammarskjöld 1905–1961 11
- Armand Hammer 1898–1990 1
- Dashiell Hammett 1894–1961 6
- Jack Handey born 1949 33
- Thích Nhất Hạnh 1926–2022 8
- Nikole Hannah-Jones born 1976 2
- Pauline Hanson born 1954 1
- Harald V 1937–2026 2
- Yuval Noah Harari born 1976 4
- Warren G. Harding 1865–1923 1
- Thomas Hardy 1840–1928 25
- Kamala Harris born 1964 2
- Sam Harris born 1967 13
- Sydney J. Harris 1917–1986 12
- Benjamin Harrison 1833–1901 2
- George Harrison 1943–2001 3
- Kevin Hart born 1979 1
- Paul Harvey 1918–2009 2
- Henry Stanley Haskins 1
- Václav Havel 1936–2011 17
- Stephen Hawking 1942–2018 16
- Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804–1864 23
- Friedrich Hayek 1899–1992 5
- Rutherford B. Hayes 1822–1893 10
- William Hazlitt 1778–1830 29
- Mitch Hedberg 1968–2005 3
- Hugh Hefner 1926–2017 3
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770–1831 5
- Pete Hegseth born 1980 1
- Martin Heidegger 1889–1976 3
- Robert A. Heinlein 1907–1988 34
- Werner Heisenberg 1901–1976 8
- Felicia Hemans 1793–1835 1
- Ernest Hemingway 1899–1961 51
- Nelson Henderson 1865–1943 1
- Jimi Hendrix 1942–1970 3
- William Ernest Henley 1849–1903 4
- Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex born 1984 1
- O. Henry 1862–1910 11
- Patrick Henry 1736–1799 10
- Audrey Hepburn 1929–1993 3
- Katharine Hepburn 1907–2003 2
- Heraclitus 535–470 BC 7
- Frank Herbert 1920–1986 8
- Herodotus 484–425 BC 5
- Robert Herrick 1591–1674 1
- Ross Hersey 1
- Markus Herz 1747–1803 1
- Werner Herzog born 1942 6
- Hesiod 776–700 BC 4
- Hermann Hesse 1877–1962 25
- Charlton Heston 1923–2008 2
- Napoleon Hill 1883–1970 4
- Edmund Hillary 1919–2008 2
- Burton Hills 1
- Paris Hilton born 1981 2
- Geoffrey Hinton born 1947 1
- Augustine of Hippo 354–430 34
- Hippocrates 460–370 BC 3
- Hippothoon 1
- Hirohito 1901–1989 1
- Alfred Hitchcock 1899–1980 6
- Christopher Hitchens 1949–2011 4
- Adolf Hitler 1889–1945 21
- Thomas Hobbes 1588–1679 8
- Eric Hobsbawm 1917–2012 3
- David Hockney 1937–2026 2
- Jimmy Hoffa 1913–1975 2
- Alice Hoffman born 1952 5
- Baron d'Holbach 1723–1789 4
- Nicole Hollander 1939–2026 1
- John Andrew Holmes 2
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. 1841–1935 35
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. 1809–1894 50
- Homer 900–800 BC 21
- Josh Homme born 1973 1
- Jiao Hong 1540–1620 1
- Bell hooks 1952–2021 1
- Herbert Hoover 1874–1964 4
- Bob Hope 1903–2003 2
- Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844–1889 7
- Tom Hopkins 1
- Grace Hopper 1906–1992 3
- A. E. Housman 1859–1936 3
- Robert E. Howard 1906–1936 10
- E. W. Howe 1853–1937 8
- Julia Ward Howe 1819–1910 2
- Jensen Huang born 1963 1
- Dick Hubbard born 1946 1
- Elbert Hubbard 1856–1915 42
- Kin Hubbard 1868–1930 3
- L. Ron Hubbard 1911–1986 6
- Langston Hughes 1901–1967 9
- Victor Hugo 1802–1885 38
- David Hume 1711–1776 9
- Hubert Humphrey 1911–1978 5
- Leigh Hunt 1784–1859 2
- Fannie Hurst 1889–1968 2
- Zora Neale Hurston 1891–1960 7
- Jalen Hurts born 1998 1
- Saddam Hussein 1937–2006 1
- Aldous Huxley 1894–1963 31
- Michael Iapoce 1
- Henrik Ibsen 1828–1906 18
- Ice-T born 1958 1
- William Ralph Inge 1860–1954 5
- Robert G. Ingersoll 1833–1899 25
- John Irving born 1942 5
- Washington Irving 1783–1859 16
- Steve Irwin 1962–2006 1
- Isaiah 766–686 BC 7
- Kazuo Ishiguro born 1954 2
- L. P. Jacks 1860–1955 6
- Andrew Jackson 1767–1845 5
- Jesse Jackson 1941–2026 14
- Michael Jackson 1958–2009 5
- Robert H. Jackson 1892–1954 13
- Stonewall Jackson 1824–1863 4
- W. W. Jacobs 1863–1943 2
- Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin 1
- Henry James 1843–1916 11
- Lily James born 1989 1
- William James 1842–1910 22
- Thomas Jefferson 1743–1826 73
- Caitlyn Jenner born 1949 1
- Jerome 345–420 3
- Jesus 7 BC–AD 30 87
- Penn Jillette born 1955 2
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah 1876–1948 4
- Joan of Arc 1412–1431 5
- Steve Jobs 1955–2011 12
- Alejandro Jodorowsky born 1929 2
- John of the Cross 1542–1591 3
- Pope John Paul II 1920–2005 6
- Elton John born 1947 2
- Dakota Johnson born 1989 1
- Jimmy Johnson born 1943 1
- Lyndon B. Johnson 1908–1973 20
- Magic Johnson born 1959 1
- Mike Johnson born 1972 1
- Samuel Johnson 1709–1784 99
- Debby Jones 1
- Franklin D. Jones 1879–1967 3
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- Pythagoras 583–491 BC 2
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- Dr. Seuss 1904–1991 12
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- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury 1671–1713 5
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- Bart Simpson 1
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- Carrie Snow born 1901 1
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- Socrates 470–399 BC 34
- Solomon 990–931 BC 1
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- Sophocles 496–406 BC 27
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- Jonathan Swift 1667–1745 36
- Taylor Swift born 1989 1
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- Tacitus 55–120 27
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- Sharon Tate 1943–1969 1
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- Donald Trump born 1946 11
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- Mark Twain 1835–1910 151
- Frank Tyger 7
- William Tyndale 1494–1536 2
- Mike Tyson born 1966 9
- Neil deGrasse Tyson born 1958 3
- Sun Tzu 544–496 BC 26
- Tracey Ullman born 1959 2
- Unattributed 89
- United States Congress 6
- John Updike 1932–2009 15
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- Borje Vahamaki 1
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- Yoda 2
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