Authors
Everyone with a work on the shelves, by the initial of their name in Latin letters. Chinese names sort by their pinyin.
A
- John Adams 1735–1826 1 work
- Hans Christian Andersen 1805–1875 1 work
- Anonymous 佚名 7 works
- Anonymous (Han dynasty compilers) 佚名 compiled c. 1st century BCE – 1st century CE 1 work
- Anonymous (Han dynasty) 佚名 compiled by the 1st century CE 1 work
- Anonymous (Warring States) 佚名 compiled c. 5th–3rd century BCE 1 work
- Anonymous Confucian scholars 佚名 late Warring States to early Han 2 works
- Archimedes of Syracuse Ἀρχιμήδης c. 287–212 BCE 2 works
- Architect of the Capitol (the plate's inscription of 1793 quoted within) Architect of the Capitol office dates from 1793 1 work
- Asoka Aśoka (Devānaṃpiya Piyadasi) reigned c. 268–232 BCE 1 work
B
- Charles Babbage 1791–1871 2 works
- Francis Bacon 1561–1626 4 works
- Bai Juyi 白居易 772–846 3 works
- William Blake 1757–1827 1 work
- George Boole 1815–1864 1 work
- Robert Braden, Joyce K. Reynolds, Steve Crocker, Vint Cerf, Jake Feinler and Celeste Anderson RFC Editor, et al. (Robert Braden, Joyce K. Reynolds, Steve Crocker, Vint Cerf, Jake Feinler, Celeste Anderson) published 7 April 1999 1 work
- Scott Bradner fl. 1997 1 work
- E. A. Wallis Budge 1857–1934 1 work
- Samuel Butler Samuel Butler (as “Cellarius”) 1835–1902 1 work
C
- Ross Callon (editor) fl. 1996 1 work
- Cao Cao 曹操 155–220 2 works
- Cao Pi 曹丕 187–226 1 work
- Brian Carpenter (editor), for the Internet Architecture Board fl. 1996 1 work
- Jimmy Carter 1924–2024 1 work
- Cen Shen 岑參 c. 715–770 1 work
- Vint Cerf b. 1943 2 works
- Geoffrey Chaucer Geffrey Chaucer c. 1343–1400 1 work
- Anton Chekhov Антон Павлович Чехов 1860–1904 1 work
- Chen Zi’ang 陳子昂 661–702 1 work
- G. K. Chesterton Gilbert Keith Chesterton 1874–1936 1 work
- Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero 106–43 BCE 1 work
- Claude AI model by Anthropic; written 2026 2 works
- Confucius 孔子 551–479 BCE 1 work
- Confucius and his disciples 孔子及其弟子 Confucius 551–479 BCE 1 work
- Cui Hao 崔顥 c. 704–754 1 work
- Marie Curie Marie Skłodowska Curie 1867–1934 2 works
D
- Dai Wangshu 戴望舒 1905–1950 1 work
- Darius I, king of Persia Dārayavauš reigned 522–486 BCE 1 work
- Charles Darwin 1809–1882 2 works
- René Descartes 1596–1650 1 work
- Emily Dickinson 1830–1886 9 works
- Du Fu 杜甫 712–770 5 works
E
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803–1882 2 works
- Epictetus Ἐπίκτητος c. 50–c. 135 1 work
- Euclid Εὐκλείδης fl. c. 300 BCE 1 work
F
- Jean-Henri Fabre 1823–1915 1 work
- Fan Ye 范曄 398–445 1 work
- Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹 989–1052 1 work
- Michael Faraday 1791–1867 1 work
- Benjamin Franklin 1706–1790 3 works
- Free Software Foundation founded 1985 1 work
G
- Galileo Galilei 1564–1642 1 work
- Gao Shi 高適 c. 704–765 1 work
- David Goodger and Guido van Rossum David Goodger, Guido van Rossum van Rossum b. 1956 1 work
- Gu Yanwu 顧炎武 1613–1682 1 work
H
- Hammurabi, king of Babylon Hammurabi reigned c. 1792–1750 BCE 1 work
- Han Yu 韓愈 768–824 2 works
- Thomas Hardy 1840–1928 1 work
- William Hazlitt 1778–1830 1 work
- Lafcadio Hearn Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo) 1850–1904 1 work
- O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) O. Henry 1862–1910 1 work
- Heraclitus Ἡράκλειτος c. 535–c. 475 BCE 1 work
- Herodotus Ἡρόδοτος c. 484–c. 425 BCE 1 work
- D. Richard Hipp and the SQLite developers Hipp b. 1961 2 works
- Thomas Hobbes 1588–1679 1 work
- Herman Hollerith 1860–1929 1 work
- Robert Hooke 1635–1703 1 work
- Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844–1889 3 works
- Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus 65–8 BCE 1 work
- Huang Tingjian 黃庭堅 1045–1105 1 work
- Thomas Henry Huxley 1825–1895 1 work
I
- Internet Activities Board named 1983; later the Internet Architecture Board 1 work
J
K
- John Keats 1795–1821 3 works
- John F. Kennedy 1917–1963 1 work
L
- Charles Lamb 1775–1834 1 work
- Laozi 老子 2 works
- Antoine Lavoisier Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier 1743–1794 1 work
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646–1716 2 works
- Li Bai 李白 701–762 6 works
- Li Qingzhao 李清照 1084–c. 1155 4 works
- Li Shangyin 李商隱 c. 813–c. 858 1 work
- Liezi (attributed) 列子 traditionally 5th century BCE; text compiled by the 4th century CE 2 works
- Liu Bannong 劉半農 1891–1934 1 work
- Liu Changqing 劉長卿 c. 709–c. 785 1 work
- Liu Hui 劉徽 fl. 263 1 work
- Liu Xie 劉勰 c. 465–c. 522 1 work
- Liu Yuxi 劉禹錫 772–842 1 work
- Liu Yuxi (attributed) 劉禹錫 772–842 1 work
- Liu Zongyuan 柳宗元 773–819 2 works
- Ada Lovelace 1815–1852 1 work
- Lu Xun 魯迅 1881–1936 11 works
- Lu You 陸游 1125–1210 3 works
- Percy Ludgate Percy E. Ludgate 1883–1922 1 work
M
- Ma Zhiyuan 馬致遠 c. 1250–c. 1321 1 work
- Marcus Aurelius Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος Ἀντωνῖνος 121–180 1 work
- Allan Marquand 1853–1924 1 work
- Larry Masinter fl. 1998 1 work
- Master Sun (identity unknown) 孫子 fl. c. 3rd–5th century CE 1 work
- James Clerk Maxwell 1831–1879 1 work
- Mencius (Meng Ke) 孟子 c. 372–289 BCE 1 work
- Gregor Mendel 1822–1884 1 work
- Meng Haoran 孟浩然 689–740 2 works
- John Stuart Mill 1806–1873 1 work
- John Milton 1608–1674 1 work
- Michel de Montaigne 1533–1592 3 works
N
- John Napier 1550–1617 1 work
- NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) NASA founded 1958 5 works
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center founded 1959 1 work
- Isaac Newton 1643–1727 2 works
O
- Open Source Initiative (from the Debian Free Software Guidelines by Bruce Perens) Open Source Initiative founded 1998 1 work
- Ouyang Xiu 歐陽脩 1007–1072 3 works
- Ovid Publius Ovidius Naso 43 BCE–c. 17 CE 1 work
P
- Blaise Pascal 1623–1662 2 works
- Charles Sanders Peirce 1839–1914 1 work
- Tim Peters fl. 1999 1 work
- Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Franciscus Petrarca 1304–1374 1 work
- Plato Πλάτων c. 428–348 BCE 2 works
- Plutarch Πλούταρχος c. 46–after 119 CE 1 work
- Edgar Allan Poe 1809–1849 1 work
- Henri Poincaré 1854–1912 1 work
- Jon Postel, Leonard Kleinrock, Vint Cerf and Barry Boehm Jon Postel, Leonard Kleinrock, Vint Cerf, Barry Boehm Postel 1943–1998; Kleinrock b. 1934; Cerf b. 1943; Boehm 1935–2022 1 work
- Alexander Pushkin Александр Сергеевич Пушкин 1799–1837 1 work
Q
R
- Eric S. Raymond b. 1957 1 work
- Eric S. Raymond (editor) and many contributors The Jargon File, ed. Eric S. Raymond and many contributors 1975–2003 1 work
- Bernhard Riemann 1826–1866 1 work
- Christina Rossetti 1830–1894 1 work
- Guido van Rossum, Barry Warsaw and Alyssa Coghlan Guido van Rossum, Barry Warsaw, Alyssa Coghlan van Rossum b. 1956 1 work
- John Ruskin 1819–1900 1 work
S
- Arthur Schopenhauer 1788–1860 1 work
- Samuel H. Scudder Samuel Hubbard Scudder 1837–1911 1 work
- Seneca Lucius Annaeus Seneca c. 4 BCE–65 CE 3 works
- William Shakespeare 1564–1616 4 works
- Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792–1822 1 work
- Shen Kuo 沈括 1031–1095 4 works
- Sima Qian 司馬遷 c. 145–c. 86 BCE 2 works
- Song Lian 宋濂 1310–1381 1 work
- Song Yingxing 宋應星 1587–c. 1666 3 works
- Baruch Spinoza Benedictus de Spinoza 1632–1677 1 work
- Richard Stallman b. 1953 1 work
- Robert Louis Stevenson 1850–1894 2 works
- Su Shi 蘇軾 1037–1101 8 works
- Jonathan Swift 1667–1745 1 work
T
- Rabindranath Tagore রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর 1861–1941 2 works
- Tao Yuanming 陶淵明 c. 365–427 6 works
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson 1809–1892 1 work
- The later Mohists 後期墨家 4th–3rd century BCE 1 work
- Edward Thomas 1878–1917 1 work
- Henry David Thoreau 1817–1862 3 works
- Thucydides Θουκυδίδης c. 460–c. 400 BCE 1 work
- Leo Tolstoy Лев Николаевич Толстой 1828–1910 1 work
- John Tyndall 1820–1893 1 work
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W
- David Waitzman fl. 1990 1 work
- Alfred Russel Wallace 1823–1913 1 work
- Wang Anshi 王安石 1021–1086 1 work
- Wang Bo 王勃 650–676 1 work
- Wang Changling 王昌齡 c. 698–c. 757 1 work
- Wang Guowei 王國維 1877–1927 2 works
- Wang Wan 王灣 c. 693–c. 751 1 work
- Wang Wei 王維 c. 699–761 4 works
- Wang Xizhi 王羲之 303–361 1 work
- Wang Zhihuan 王之渙 688–742 1 work
- Barry Warsaw, Jeremy Hylton, David Goodger and Alyssa Coghlan Barry Warsaw, Jeremy Hylton, David Goodger, Alyssa Coghlan PEP created 2000 1 work
- Wei Yingwu 韋應物 737–c. 792 1 work
- Wen Yiduo 聞一多 1899–1946 1 work
- Gilbert White 1720–1793 1 work
- Walt Whitman 1819–1892 2 works
- Oscar Wilde 1854–1900 1 work
- Virginia Woolf 1882–1941 1 work
- William Wordsworth 1770–1850 1 work
X
- Xin Qiji 辛棄疾 1140–1207 3 works
- Xu Dishan 許地山 1894–1941 1 work
- Xu Guangqi 徐光啟 1562–1633 1 work
- Xu Zhimo 徐志摩 1897–1931 4 works
- Xunzi (Xun Kuang) 荀子 c. 310–c. 235 BCE 1 work
Y
- Yan Shu 晏殊 991–1055 1 work
- Yan Zhitui 顏之推 531–c. 591 1 work
- W. B. Yeats 1865–1939 3 works
- Yuan Hongdao 袁宏道 1568–1610 1 work
Z
- Zhang Dai 張岱 1597–c. 1684 1 work
- Zhang Ji 張繼 c. 712–c. 779 1 work
- Zhang Jiuling 張九齡 678–740 1 work
- Zhang Ruoxu 張若虛 c. 660–c. 720 1 work
- Zhang Zai 張載 1020–1077 1 work
- Zhou Dunyi 周敦頤 1017–1073 1 work
- Zhu Xi 朱熹 1130–1200 1 work
- Zhu Ziqing 朱自清 1898–1948 3 works
- Zhuangzi (Zhuang Zhou) 莊子 c. 369–c. 286 BCE 2 works
- Zhuangzi and his school 莊子 4th–3rd century BCE 1 work
- Zu Yong 祖詠 c. 699–c. 746 1 work
- Zuo Qiuming (traditionally attributed) 左丘明（傳） 5th century BCE (traditional) 1 work