Gaius Julius Caesar(100–44 BC) was a Roman general, statesman, Consul, and notable author of Latin prose

Henry Havelock Ellis, known as Havelock Ellis, (1859–1939), was a British physician, writer, and social reformer who studied human sexuality.

François-Marie Arouet (1694–1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher.

Herbert Clark Hoover (1874–1964) was the 31st President of the United States (1929–1933).

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936), better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist.

The Martyrdom of St Lawrence [258 AD] (Palma il Giovane, 1581 -82)

Albert Camus (1913–1960) was a French-Algerian Nobel Prize winning author, journalist, and philosopher.

Margaret Eleanor Atwood (1939-) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist.

Marcus Tullius Cicero(106 BC–43 BC) was a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul, and constitutionalist.

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist and philosopher of science.