William Shakespeare (1564–1616), English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon."

Gene Simmons (1949-), Israeli-American rock bass guitarist, singer-songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, actor, and television personality. Known by his stage persona The Demon, he is the bass guitarist/co-lead vocalist of Kiss, a rock band which more than 100 million albums worldwide.

narcissist: (n) one with an excessive admiration or love of oneself.

George Timothy Clooney (1961-), American actor, writer, producer, director and activist. He has received three Golden Globe Awards for his work as an actor and two Academy Awards, one for acting and the other for producing.

Samuel Butler, Victorian-era English author. Two of his most famous works are the Utopian satire Erewhon and a semi-autobiographical novel published posthumously, The Way of All Flesh. He is also known for studies on Christian orthodoxy, evolutionary thought, and Italian art, and works of literary history and criticism. Butler made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey, which remain in use.

William Hazlitt (1778–1830), English writer, remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, as the greatest art critic of his age, and as a drama critic, social commentator, and philosopher. He was also a painter. He is considered one of the great critics and essayists of the English language.

Peter Drucker, 20th-century Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of the modern business corporation. A leader in the development of management education, he invented the concept known as management by objectives
and has been described as "the founder of modern management."

Samuel Langhorne Clemens ( 1835–1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist.

He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), often called "The Great American Novel."

He also wrote the essay The Private History of a Campaign That Failed and, subsequently, The War Prayer.

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William Shakespeare

Leo Buscaglia, 20th-century American professor, Department of Special Education, University of California; author; and motivational speaker,

Henri Nouwen, 20th-century Dutch-born Catholic priest, professor, and writer, with interests in psychology, pastoral ministry, spirituality, social justice, and community.

Plato, 4th-century BC Greek philosopher and mathematician.