examples:
Honore Balzac
French novelist; he portrays the complexity of 19th century French society (1799-1850)
Dante Alighieri
an Italian poet famous for writing the Divine Comedy that describes a journey through Hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321)
Demóstenes
Athenian statesman and orator (circa 385-322 BC)
John Donne
English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631)
Ernest Hemingway
an American writer of fiction who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1954 (1899-1961)
Homero
ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey (circa 850 BC)
Víctor Hugo
French poet and novelist and dramatist; leader of the romantic movement in France (1802-1885)
Henry James
writer who was born in the United States but lived in England (1843-1916)
Franz Kafka
Czech novelist who wrote in German about a nightmarish world of isolated and troubled individuals (1883-1924)
Moliere
French author of sophisticated comedies (1622-1673)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
French philosopher and writer born in Switzerland; believed that the natural goodness of man was warped by society; ideas influenced the French Revolution (1712-1778)
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Roman statesman and philosopher who was an advisor to Nero; his nine extant tragedies are modeled on Greek tragedies (circa 4 BC - 65 AD)
William Shakespeare
English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616)
George Bernard Shaw
British playwright (born in Ireland); founder of the Fabian Society (1856-1950)
Emile Zola
French novelist and critic; defender of Dreyfus (1840-1902)
Esopo
Greek author of fables (circa 620-560 BC)
Ulysses Grant
18th President of the United States; commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War (1822-1885)
Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States; saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)
Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States; hero of the Spanish-American War; Panama Canal was built during his administration
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the Great Depression and led country during World War II (1882-1945)
George Washington
1st President of the United States; commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution (1732-1799)
Mesías
the awaited king of the Jews; the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people
Atila
king of the Huns; the most successful barbarian invader of the Roman Empire (406-453)
Carlos I El Grande
king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814)
Victoria
queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901; the last Hanoverian ruler of England (1819-1901)
types:
locutor
someone who broadcasts on radio or television
cotilla
a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others
negociador
someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement)
propagandista
a person who disseminates messages calculated to assist some cause or some government
simpatizante
commiserates with someone who has had misfortune
telépata
someone with the power of communicating thoughts directly
autor,
escritor
writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
biógrafo
someone who writes an account of a person's life
víbora
a spiteful woman gossip
coautor
a writer who collaborates with others in writing something
crítico
a writer who reports and analyzes events of the day
enciclopedista
a person who compiles information (as for reference purposes)
libretista
author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta
letrista
a person who writes the words for songs
almuecín,
almuédano
the Muslim official of a mosque who summons the faithful to prayer from a minaret five times a day
poeta,
versificador
a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
sensacionalista
someone who uses exaggerated or lurid material in order to gain public attention
guardavía
a railroad employee in charge of signals and point in a railroad yard
hablador,
hablante
someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous)
acusica,
acusón,
canuto,
chismoso,
chivato,
conventillero,
cotorra,
cuentista,
fuelle,
gaceta,
lenguón,
malsín,
soplo,
soplón
someone who gossips indiscreetly
trágico
a writer (especially a playwright) who writes tragedies