William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Playwright
1
Tracy Letts, 60
2
Eric Bogosian, 72
3
Sam Shepard (1943-2017)
4
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
5
Jonathan Larson (1960-1996)
6
Alexander Kluge (1932-2026)
7
Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
8
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
9
Rupert Holmes, 79
10
Johnathan Larson (1960-1996)
11
Gary Mitchell, 60
12
Robert Greene (1558-1592)
13
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
14
Howard Ashman (1950-1991)
15
Robert Shearman, 56
16
Brian Clark (1932-2021)
17
Richard Nelson, 75
18
Noel Coward (1899-1973)
19
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
20
Female Playwrights
Celebrities by Profession
Slawomir Mrozek (1930-2013)
21
José Rivera, 71
22
Neil Simon (1927-2018)
23
Martin McDonagh, 56
24
Willy Russell, 78
25
Adam Rapp, 57
26
George Middleton (1880-1967)
27
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
28
Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)
29
Wole Soyinka, 91
30
Moss Hart (1904-1961)
31
Romulus Zachariah Linney IV (1930-2011)
32
Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974)
33
Donald Freed, 93
34
August Wilson (1945-2005)
35
Simon Gray (1936-2008)
36
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
37
Peter Brook (1925-2022)
38
David-Matthew Barnes, 55
39
Maxwell Anderson (1888-1959)
40
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
41
Alexandre Dumas Jr. (1824-1895)
42
Tom Stoppard (1937-2025)
43
Theodor Herzl (1860-1904)
44
Cyrano De Bergerac (1619-1655)
45
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, 52
46
Ferenc Molnár (1878-1952)
47
Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
48
