National
Discover renowned personalities from all walks of life in our comprehensive list of National celebrities. From politicians and activists to entertainers and sports stars, explore the lives and achievements of notable figures who have shaped and inspired the nation.

Rinat Arkhipov
Tatar and Russian poet

Johann Andreas Cramer
Germany
GermanyGerman poet, theologian

Catherine Asaro
USA
USAAmerican writer.

Wilhelm von Scholtz
Germany
GermanyGerman poet, writer

Musa Tashmuhamedov
Uzbekistan
UzbekistanUzbek Soviet writer

Michael Golodniy
Russia
RussiaSoviet poet.

Friedrich von Sallet
Germany
GermanyGerman poet

Bernart Ventadorn
France
FranceProvençal lyric poet of the 12th century

Maksim Rylskiy
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian Soviet poet

Asug Kamandar
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanAzerbaijani Ashug of the 20th century

Roque Dalton
Salvador
SalvadorSalvadoran poet, communist

Frantisek CELAKOVSKY
Czech poet, translator, literary critic. His cycles of poems "Echo of Russian Songs" and "Echo of Czech Songs" have firmly entered the treasury of Czech classical poetry.

Stefan Zizany
Ukraine
UkraineWestern Russian Orthodox writer and polemicist

Ludvik Utsevich
Lithuania
LithuaniaLithuanian writer, poet, folklorist and ethnographer

Vladimir Holan
Czech
CzechCzech poet and translator.

Giuseppe Chiarini
Italy
ItalyItalian poet and critic.

Yury Andruhovich
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian poet, prose writer, translator, essayist.

Jorge Barbosa
Poet and writer from Cape Verde.

Lucius Accius
Italy
ItalyAncient Roman tragic poet

Robert Bloomfield
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish folk poet

Paul Fleming
Germany
GermanyGerman poet

Konrad von Heimesfurt
Germany
GermanyGerman writer and poet of the 13th century

Samed Vurgun
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanAzerbaijani Soviet poet, playwright and public figure.

Giovanni Battista Casti
Italy
ItalyItalian poet.

William Wellington G'oba
South Africa
South AfricaSouth African poet, translator and journalist, of Xhosa descent

Tristan Corbiere
France
FranceFrench symbolist poet, representative of the group of "damned poets".

Reuven Ben-Yosef
Israel
IsraelIsraeli poet

Alber Cossery
France
FranceA classic of Franco-Egyptian literature

Albertus Ines
Poland
PolandPolish poet

Carl Ludvig Emil Aarestrup
Denmark
DenmarkDanish lyric poet

William John Courthope
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer, biographer and literary historian.

Martselius Martynaytis
Lithuania
LithuaniaLithuanian poet, literary critic, essayist, translator.

Masudzi Ibuse
Japan
JapanOutstanding Japanese writer. Winner of the Naoki Prize (1937) and Yomiuri Prize (1950 and 1971).

Nikolay Brown
Russian Soviet poet

Matsumoto Leiji
Japan
JapanWriter, one of the founders of modern romantic and fantasy shonen manga

Iakov Yakir
Israel
IsraelBessarabian Jewish writer.

Franciszek Zyglinski
Poland
PolandKrakow poet and artist.

Nikolay Ribalko
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian poet.

Zahariy Abragamovich
Karaite poet.

Hartmann von Aue
Epic and lyric poet of the German Middle Ages

Ryhor Borodulin
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian poet, essayist, translator

Stepan Oleynik
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian Soviet poet

Marshall Barer
USA
USAPoet, singer, director, songwriter.

Gerrit Achterberg
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch poet.

Eugenijus Alisanka
Lithuania
LithuaniaLithuanian poet.

Alexander Dobrolubov
Russia
RussiaPoet

Wawrzyniec Korwin
Poland
PolandA 16th-century Polish writer known as Novoforensis

Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska
Poland
PolandPolish poetess

Hayashi Kyoko
Japan
JapanJapanese writer

Fransua Arman Sulli-Prudom
France
FranceFrench poet, the first Nobel laureate in literature