William Shakespeare26 April 1564, British
Writer
Christopher Marlowe26 February 1564, British
Playwright, Poet
Mark Rylance18 January 1960, British
Actor
Peter Morgan10 April 1963, British
Screenwriter
Martin McDonagh26 March 1970, Irish, British
Playwright, Screenwriter, Filmmaker
D. H. Lawrence11 September 1885, British
Novelist
Sir James Matthew Barrie09 May 1860, British, Scottish
Writer
Tom Stoppard03 July 1937, Czech, British
Playwright
Robert Greene14 May 1959, British, American
Writer, Playwright
Harold Pinter10 October 1930, British
Nobel Prize Winner in Literature
Alfred Douglas22 October 1870, British
Poet
Ben Jonson11 June 1572, British
Dramatist, Poet & Actor
John Dryden09 August 1631, British
poet
J. B. Priestley13 September 1894, British
Novelist and Playwright
Oliver Goldsmith10 November 1728, Irish, British
Novelist, Playwright, Poet
Joseph Addison01 May 1672, British
Essayist & Poet
William Maugham25 January 1874, British
Novelist & Playwright
Alfred Noyes16 September 1880, British
Poet
John Gay30 June 1685, British
Dramatist & Poet
Adrian Mitchell24 October 1932, British
Poet
A.P. Herbert24 September 1890, British
Humorist, Novelist, Playwright & Law Reform
Philip Pullman19 October 1946, British
Writer, Novelist, University teacher, Playwright,
Jeffrey Archer15 April 1940, British
Politician, Novelist, Writer, Playwright, Science
Douglas Hodge25 February 1960, British
Actor
Rory Kinnear17 February 1978, British
Actor
Mike Leigh20 February 1943, British
Film director, Actor, Playwright, Theatre
Steven Berkoff03 August 1937, British
Actor
Beverley Cross13 April 1931, British
Screenwriter, Librettist
Anthony Minghella06 January 1954, British
Screenwriter, Playwright, Film director, Film
Peter MoffatBritish
Arnold Ridley07 January 1896, British
Actor
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Ian McEwan21 June 1948, British
Writer, Screenwriter, Novelist, Playwright, Film
Alan Bennett09 May 1934, British
Actor, Screenwriter, Playwright, Diarist, Writer
Ben Elton03 May 1959, Australian, British
Actor, Comedian, Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter,
Ian Ogilvy30 September 1943, British
Actor
Rupert Holmes24 February 1947, British, American
Composer
Christopher Isherwood26 August 1904, British, American
Novelist
Ewan MacColl25 January 1915, British
Singer, Playwright, Record producer, Composer
Leigh Lawson21 July 1945, British
Actor
Simon Armitage26 May 1963, British
Poet
David Haig20 September 1955, British
Actor
Stephen Poliakoff01 December 1952, British
Writer, Screenwriter, Playwright
John Osborne12 December 1929, British
Actor, Playwright, Screenwriter, Writer
Ralph Brown18 June 1957, British
Actor
Ivor Novello15 January 1893, British
Actor, Playwright, Composer, Writer, Screenwriter,
Sean Gilder01 March 1964, British
Actor
Edward Bulwer-Lytton25 May 1803, British
Writer
Joe Orton01 January 1933, British
Playwright, Screenwriter, Writer
John Webster1578 AD, British
Playwright, Poet, Writer, Poet lawyer
David Hare05 June 1947, British
playwright, screenwriter, film director, theatre
Jack Rosenthal08 September 1931, British
Playwright
Len Deighton18 February 1929, British
Writer
Dennis Kelly16 November 1970, British
Writer, Screenwriter
Jez Butterworth29 February 1969, British
Playwright
Jack Thorne06 December 1978, British
Screenwriter, Writer
Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany24 July 1878, Irish, British
Dramatist
Leslie Bricusse29 January 1931, British
Composer, Musician, Playwright, Lyricist,
Winston Graham30 June 1908, British
Novelist
Oskar Kokoschka01 March 1886, Austrian, British
Painter, Playwright, Writer, Poet, University
Hanif Kureishi05 December 1954, British
Playwright
Dennis Potter17 May 1935, British
Screenwriter
William Congreve24 January 1670, British
Playwright, Poet, Writer, Translator
Robert Bolt15 August 1924, British
Actor, Screenwriter, Playwright, Writer
W. S. Gilbert18 November 1836, British
Dramatist
Terence Rattigan10 June 1911, British
Playwright
Peter Shaffer15 May 1926, British
Playwright
Elias Canetti25 July 1905, British
Writer, Aphorist, Playwright, Chemist, Essayist
Howard Staunton01 April 1810, British
Chess Master
Thomas Kyd06 November 1558, British
playwright, writer
Deobia OpareiBritish
Patrick Marber19 September 1964, British
Comedian, Playwright, Film director, Puppeteer,
John Lyly1553 AD, British
Writer
David Garrick19 February 1717, British
Actor, Playwright, Film producer, Writer,
John Vanbrugh24 January 1664, British
Architect
John Agard21 June 1949, British
Playwright, Writer, Poet, Children's writer
Heathcote Williams15 November 1941, British
Actor, Poet, Author, Screenwriter, Writer
Christopher Hampton26 January 1946, British
Screenwriter, Playwright, Film director, Writer,
George Chapman1559 AD, British
Dramatist
Simon Brett28 October 1945, British
Writer, Novelist, Playwright, Television producer,
Brian Friel09 January 1929, Irish, British
Writer, Playwright, Theatre director, Politician
Louis MacNeice12 September 1907, British
Poet, Writer, Playwright
George Arliss10 April 1868, British
Writer, Playwright, Film director, Autobiographer,
Thomas Nashe31 October 1567, British
Playwright
Lee Hall20 September 1966, British
screenwriter, writer,playwright
Mike Bartlett07 October 1980, British
playwright
William Trevor24 May 1928, Irish, British
Novelist
Alan Ayckbourn12 April 1939, British
Playwright, Writer, Screenwriter, Theatre director
Thomas Middleton18 April 1580, British
Playwright, Poet, Writer
Nigel Kneale18 April 1922, British
Screenwriter
Tom Kempinski24 March 1938, British
Actor, Film actor
John Fletcher30 November 1579, British
playwright, poet, writer
Patrick Hamilton17 March 1904, British
Writer
Arnold Wesker24 May 1932, British
Playwright
Edward Bond18 July 1934, British
Writer, Screenwriter, Playwright, Poet, Theatre