a Spanish poet, a prolific writer. One of his most important contributions to modern poetry was his advocacy of the concept of "pure poetry".

a Scottish portrait painter. He served as Portrait Painter to King George IV in Scotland.

a French novelist, polemicist and physician. His first novel divided critics due to the author's pessimistic depiction of the human condition and his writing style based on working class speech

a French mathematician who made major contributions in number theory, complex analysis, differential geometry and partial differential equations.

an Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic, academic, and recipient of the inaugural 1970 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style