American authors
American| Australian| Austrian| Canadian| Chinese| Czech| Danish| Dutch| English| French| German| Greek| Hungarian| Indian| Irish| Italian| Japanese| Mexican| Norwegian| Polish| Russian| Romanian| Scottish| Spanish| Swiss| Swedish
| Author (number of quotes) | Description |
| A | |
| Abbey, Edward (3) | American author |
| Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem (1) | American professional basketball player |
| Ackles, Jensen (1) | American actor |
| Adams, Ansel (1) | American photographer |
| Adams, Clark (1) | American freethought leader and activist |
| Adams, Franklin Pierce (2) | American columnist |
| Adams, Henry Brooks (7) | American author, journalist, historian |
| Adams, Joey (1) | stage name of Joseph Abramowitz, American comedian |
| Adams, John Quincy (1) | American politician |
| Adams, Scott (15) | American comic strip writer |
| Agar, Herbert (1) | American journalist |
| Alba, Jessica (2) | American actress |
| Albom, Mitch (16) | American author, journalist and screenwriter |
| Albright, Herm (1) | German-born American painter |
| Alcott, Louisa May (6) | American author |
| Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1) | American author and poet |
| Aldrin, Buzz (4) | American astronaut |
| Alexander, Shana (1) | American journalist |
| Ali, Muhammad (11) | American boxer |
| Allan, Gary (1) | stage name of Gary Allan Herzberg, American singer and dalszerző |
| Allen, Fred (2) | American comedian |
| Allen, Woody (27) | American author, actor, director and producer |
| Allende, Isabel (2) | Chilean American writer |
| Allport, Gordon W. (1) | American psychologist |
| Alsop, Stewart (1) | American newspaper columnist |
| Altshuler, Michael (1) | American motivational speaker |
| Anderson, C. J. (2) | American author |
| Anderson, David J. (1) | American neurobiologist |
| Anderson, Harry (1) | American actor and magician |
| Anderson, Philip W. (1) | American physicist |
| Anderson, Walter (1) | American author, painter |
| Angelou, Maya (13) | American author and poet |
| Anthony, Piers (1) | English-American author |
| Arden, Paul (21) | American creative director and author |
| Argov, Sherry (2) | American author |
| Armstrong, Billie Joe (1) | American musician |
| Armstrong, Louis Daniel (2) | American singer |
| Armstrong, Neil Alden (1) | American astronaut, aerospace engineer |
| Aronson, Elliot (1) | American psychologist |
| Asch, Sholem (1) | Polish-born American novelist |
| Asimov, Isaac (37) | Russian-born American author and biochemist |
| Atkinson, Brooks (1) | American theatre critic |
| Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia (1) | American author |
| Auster, Paul (2) | American author |
| Azevedo, Sasha (1) | American actress |
| B | |
| B. DeMille, Cecil (1) | American director, producer and actor |
| Babcock, Maltbie Davenport (1) | American clergyman and writer |
| Bach, Richard (19) | American author |
| Bailey, Pearl (3) | American actress |
| Baker, Russell (1) | American writer |
| Baldwin, Faith (1) | American author |
| Baldwin, James (3) | American novelist |
| Bale, Christian (2) | English-American actor |
| Ballard, Duane Robert (1) | American professor of oceanography |
| Bancroft, George (1) | American historian and statesman |
| Bandura, Albert (1) | Canadian-born American psychologist |
| Bangs, Richard (1) | American author and television personality |
| Barker, Dan (2) | American activist, author and musician |
| Barry, Dave (11) | American author |
| Barrymore, Drew (6) | American actress |
| Bartlett, Bo (1) | American painter |
| Barzun, Jacques (1) | French-born American historian |
| Bates, Daisy (1) | American civil rights activist, publisher and writer |
| Beagle, Peter S. (1) | American author |
| Beatty, Paul (1) | American author |
| Beecher, Henry Ward (15) | American clergyman |
| Belfort, Jordan (1) | American author, entrepreneur, and motivational speaker |
| Bell, Rob (1) | American author and pastor |
| Bellah, Robert Neelly (1) | American sociologist |
| Bennett, Bo (2) | pen name of Robert Bennett, American businessman and author |
| Bennington, Chester (1) | American musician |
| Berenson, Bernard (1) | American art historian |
| Berkus, Rusty (1) | American author |
| Berle, Milton (1) | American comedian and actor |
| Berlin, Irving (1) | American composer |
| Berra, Yogi (1) | American baseball player |
| Berry, Wendell (1) | American novelist, poet |
| Bertschinger, Edmund (1) | American physicist at MIT |
| Beston, Henry (1) | American author and scientist |
| Bezos, Jeff (1) | American businessman |
| Bialik, Mayim (2) | American actress and neurologist |
| Biersack, Andy (1) | American musician, composer and actor |
| Billings, Josh (7) | American comedian |
| Black, Holly (2) | American writer and editor |
| Blaine, David (1) | American magician |
| Blake, Eubie (1) | American composer, lyricist and pianist |
| Bloomfield, Harold (1) | American psychiatrist and author |
| Boghossian, Peter (3) | American philosopher |
| Bombeck, Erma (6) | American comedian |
| Bon Jovi, Jon (2) | American musician, singer, songwriter, and actor |
| Boone, Pat (1) | pen name of Charles Eugene Boone, American singer, actor and author |
| Boorstin, Daniel J. (2) | American historian, lawyer and author |
| Boosler, Elaine (1) | American comedian |
| Borland, Hal (3) | American author |
| Borlaug, Norman Ernest (1) | American agronomist, and humanitarian |
| Bovee, Christian Nestell (3) | American author |
| Boyd, Danah (1) | American social media scholar |
| Bracken, Peg (1) | American author |
| Bradbury, Ray (4) | American fantasy, horror and science fiction author |
| Bradley, Charles (1) | American singer |
| Bradley, Omar Nelson (1) | American general |
| Brando, Marlon (1) | American actor |
| Brashares, Ann (1) | American author |
| Bray, Libba (5) | American author |
| Breathnach, Sarah Ban (2) | American author |
| Brody, Adrien (4) | American actor and film producer |
| Bronson, Po (1) | American author and journalist |
| Brown, Dan (5) | American author |
| Brown, H. Jackson (10) | American author |
| Brown, Les (3) | American author |
| Brown, Rita Mae (3) | American writer |
| Bryan, William Jennings (1) | American politician |
| Bryson, Bill (1) | American author |
| Bujold, Lois McMaster (1) | American author |
| Bukowski, Charles (17) | American author |
| Burton, Tim (4) | American director |
| Butcher, Jim (2) | American author |
| Butler, Brett (1) | American actress |
| Butler, Nicholas Murray (1) | American philosopher |
| Byas, Don (1) | American musician |
| C | |
| Cabell, James Branch (1) | American author |
| Cabello, Camila (2) | Cuban-American singer and songwriter |
| Cabot, Meg (8) | American author |
| Cage, John (2) | American composer |
| Cage, Nicolas (1) | stage name of Nicolas Kim Coppola, American actor |
| Cain, David (2) | American author |
| Caldwell, Sarah (1) | American opera conductor, impresario, and stage director |
| Callas, Maria (1) | Greek-American operatic singer |
| Camp, Anna (1) | American actress and singer |
| Camp, Bill (1) | American actor |
| Campbell, Bebe Moore (1) | American author |
| Campbell, Joseph (6) | American author and scientist |
| Canady, Charles T. (1) | American judge and lawyer |
| Canfield, Jack (3) | American author and motivational speaker |
| Card, Orson Scott (9) | American author |
| Carnegie, Andrew (1) | Scottish-American industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist |
| Carnegie, Dale (6) | American author |
| Carter-Scott, Cherie (3) | American author |
| Carver, George Washington (2) | American scientist |
| Cass, Kiera (2) | American author |
| Cather, Willa (3) | American author |
| Chakiris, George (1) | American dancer, actor and singer |
| Chandler, Raymond (2) | American novelist |
| Chang, Ruth (1) | American philosopher |
| Channing, William E. (1) | American preacher |
| Chapin, Edwin Hubbell (2) | American priest, author |
| Chbosky, Stephen (3) | American author, screenwriter and director |
| Chopra, Deepak (8) | American New Age guru |
| Christina, Greta (17) | American author and activist |
| Cimorelli, Lisa (1) | American singer |
| Clancy, Tom (1) | American author |
| Clare, Cassandra (18) | pen name of Judith Rumelt, American-born author |
| Clark, Frank A. (2) | American editor |
| Clark, John Bates (1) | American economist |
| Clarke, James Freeman (1) | American theologian and author |
| Cleaver, Eldridge (1) | American writer and political activist |
| Clinton, Hillary (1) | American politician and jurist |
| Clooney, George (1) | American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter |
| Cobain, Kurt (8) | American musician |
| Cochran, Johnnie (3) | American lawyer |
| Colbert, Stephen (1) | American comedian and author |
| Colby, Frank Moore (1) | American author, historian |
| Collins, Jason (1) | American basketball player |
| Collins, Lily (1) | English-American actress and model |
| Collins, Suzanne (11) | American author |
| Commoner, Barry (1) | American biologist |
| Conklin, Robert (2) | American author |
| Cooper, Alice (1) | American rock singer |
| Copperfield, David (1) | stage name of David Seth Kotkin, American magician |
| Corcoran, Barbara (1) | American businesswoman, investor, speaker, author, and TV personality |
| Cosby, Bill (6) | American actor and comedian |
| Cosgrove, Stephen (1) | American author |
| Cousins, Norman (2) | American political journalist, author and professor |
| Covey, Stephen R. (4) | American author |
| Crawford, Chace (1) | American actor |
| Crawford, Joan (1) | American actress |
| Crosby, Bing (1) | American singer and actor |
| Cross, Marcia (1) | American actress |
| Cruise, Tom (1) | American actor and producer |
| Cruz, Ted (1) | American politician |
| Culkin, Macaulay (2) | American actor |
| Cummings, Edward Estlin (2) | American author, poet, painter |
| Cuoco, Kaley (1) | American actress |
| Curtis, Jamie Lee (1) | American actress and author |
| Cussler, Clive (1) | American author |
| D | |
| Dahlberg, Edward (4) | American author |
| Dangerfield, Rodney (8) | American comedian |
| Darrow, Clarence (1) | American lawyer |
| Davis, Belva (1) | American television and radio journalist |
| Davis, Bette (1) | stage name of Ruth Elizabeth Davis, American actress |
| De Niro, Robert (1) | American actor, producer, and director |
| De Vries, Peter (1) | American editor, novelist |
| Dean, James (1) | American actor |
| Dean, Jimmy Ray (1) | American singer, anchorman, actor and businessman |
| DeGeneres, Ellen (3) | American comedian and actress |
| Dempsey, Patrick (1) | American actor and driver |
| Dennett, Daniel (47) | American philosopher |
| Denton, James (1) | American actor |
| Depp, Johnny (4) | American actor |
| DeRozan, DeMar (1) | American professional basketball player |
| Deschanel, Emily (1) | American actress and producer |
| Dessen, Sarah (11) | American author |
| Deutch, Zoey (1) | American actress |
| Diamond, Jared (3) | American scientist and author |
| Dickinson, Emily (8) | American poet |
| Diesel, Vin (1) | American actor, producer and screenwriter |
| Dikkers, Scott (2) | American author and businessman |
| Dillahunty, Matt (1) | American atheist activist |
| Dillard, Annie (1) | American author |
| Diller, Phyllis (3) | American comedian |
| Disney, Walt (2) | American filmdirector and screenwriter |
| Dobzhansky, Theodosius (2) | Russian-born American geneticist and evolutionary biologist |
| Doren, Mark Van (1) | American writer, poet |
| Douglas, Michael (2) | American actor and producer |
| Downs, Hugh (1) | American author, producer and TV personality |
| Duane, Diane (1) | American science fiction and fantasy author |
| Dunne, Finley Peter (1) | American author and comedian |
| Durant, Kevin (1) | American basketball player |
| Durant, Will (1) | American author, historian, philosopher |
| Dyer, Wayne (2) | American author |
| Dyer, Wayne W. (1) | American author |
| Dylan, Bob (5) | American musician and poet |
| E | |
| Eagle, White (1) | American spiritual teacher |
| Eastman, Max (2) | American author, activist |
| Ebert, Roger (2) | American film critic, historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author |
| Eddings, David (5) | American fantasy writer |
| Edison, Thomas (1) | American inventor and businessman |
| Edison, Thomas Alva (5) | American inventor and businessman |
| Edwards, Tryon (3) | American theologian |
| Eggers, Dave (1) | American author |
| Eliot, T. S. (4) | American poet |
| Elkeles, Simone (3) | American author |
| Elliott, Clark (1) | American researcher, teacher and author |
| Elliott, Stephen (1) | American author |
| Ellison, Harlan (1) | American writer |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo (42) | American author, poet |
| Ephron, Nora (3) | American director, producer, author |
| Epps, Omar (2) | American actor, rapper, songwriter and record producer |
| Epstein, Robert (1) | American psychologist, author and journalist |
| Esar, Evan (1) | American comedian |
| Evanovich, Janet (1) | American author |
| Evans, Chris (1) | American actor |
| Evans, Richard Paul (1) | American author |
| Evert, Chris (1) | American tennis player |
| F | |
| Fadiman, Clifton (1) | American author, radio and television personality |
| Fanning, Dakota (1) | American actress |
| Fanning, Elle (1) | American actress |
| Fawcett, Farrah (1) | American actress |
| Feather, William (1) | American author |
| Feynman, Richard (22) | American physicist |
| Fields, William Claude (3) | American actor and comedian |
| Firestone, Harvey Samuel (1) | American businessman |
| Fisher, Helen (1) | American anthropologist and human behavior researcher |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott (2) | American author |
| Fitzpatrick, Becca (2) | American author |
| Flagg, Fannie (1) | stage name of Patricia Neal, American author and actress |
| Foer, Joshua (2) | American journalist |
| Fonda, Jane (1) | American actress |
| Forbes, Malcolm (1) | American journalist |
| Ford, Harrison (1) | American actor |
| Ford, Henry (11) | American businessman |
| Fossey, Dian (1) | American primatologist |
| Foster, Jodie (3) | American actress and director |
| Fouts, Dan (1) | American football quarterback |
| Fox, Michael J. (1) | Canadian-born American actor |
| Franklin, Aretha (1) | American singer |
| Franklin, Benjamin (27) | American author, politician, philosopher, scientist |
| Friedman, Thomas L. (1) | American journalist and author |
| Fritz, Robert (1) | American author, composer and movie maker |
| Fromm, Erich (6) | German-American philosopher, psychologist |
| Frost, Robert (7) | American poet |
| Frye, Mary Elizabeth (2) | American housewife and florist |
| Fuller, Richard Buckminster (2) | American architect, poet, author, inventor |
| G | |
| Gamow, George (1) | Russian-born American physicist |
| Gardner, John William (1) | American politician and author |
| Gaskarth, Alex (1) | English-American singer and musician |
| Gates, Bill (5) | American businessman |
| Gerbner, George (1) | Hungarian-born American professor of communication and the founder of cultivation theory |
| Gibb, Jack (1) | American psychologist and author |
| Gibran, Khalil (1) | Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer |
| Gibson, Mel (2) | American-born Australian actor, director, and producer |
| Gibson, William (1) | American-Canadian novelist |
| Giffin, Emily (4) | American author |
| Gilbert, Elizabeth (19) | American author |
| Ginsberg, Irwin Allen (1) | American poet |
| Gitomer, Jeffrey (1) | American author and motivational speaker |
| Glasgow, Arnold H. (1) | American humorist |
| Glasgow, Ellen (1) | American novelist |
| Goddard, Neville (1) | American metaphysics trainer |
| Goddard, Robert Hutchings (2) | American physicist |
| Godwin, Gail (1) | American author |
| Golden, Arthur (3) | American author |
| Goldman, William (3) | American author |
| Goldwyn, Samuel (1) | American producer |
| Goodier, Steve (1) | American anthropologist and sociologist |
| Goodkind, Terry (2) | American author |
| Goodman, Ellen (1) | American journalist |
| Gore, Al (1) | American politician |
| Gotti, John (2) | Italian-American gangster |
| Graham, Billy (1) | pen name of William Franklin `Billy` Graham, Jr., American evangelical Christian evangelist |
| Graham, Martha (1) | American dancer and choreographer |
| Grande, Ariana (2) | American actress and singer |
| Gray, Claudia (9) | pen name of Amy Vincent, American author |
| Green, John (12) | American author |
| Green, Ruth Hurmence (1) | American author |
| Greene, Ashley (2) | American actress and model |
| Greene, Brian (1) | American theoretical physicist |
| Greenwald, Glenn (3) | American lawyer, journalist and author |
| Groening, Matt (1) | American cartoonist |
| Groom, Winston (2) | American novelist and non-fiction writer |
| Gruen, Sara (1) | Canadian-born American author |
| H | |
| Haisch, Bernard (1) | German-born American astrophysicist |
| Halmos, Paul (2) | Hungarian-born American mathematician |
| Halsey, Margaret (1) | American author |
| Handey, Jack (1) | American humorist |
| Hannah, Kristin (2) | American author |
| Hannigan, Alyson (1) | American actress |
| Hansberry, Lorraine (1) | American author |
| Hanson, Joe (1) | American writer and comedian |
| Harris, Annaka (3) | american author |
| Harris, Charlaine (23) | American author |
| Harris, Ed (1) | American actor |
| Harris, Sam (36) | American author, philosopher |
| Hart, Hannah (1) | American comedian, actress and author |
| Harte, Bret (1) | American author and poet |
| Harwell, Ernie (1) | American sportscaster |
| Hathaway, Anne (1) | American actress |
| Hawkins, Karen (4) | American author |
| Hawn, Goldie (2) | American actress, director, singer, and producer |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel (3) | American author |
| Hay, Louise L. (2) | American author |
| Hedberg, Mitchell Lee (2) | American comedian |
| Heffernan, Margaret (1) | American businesswoman and writer |
| Heinlein, Robert Anson (5) | American science fiction writer |
| Helberg, Simon (1) | American actor and comedian |
| Hemingway, Ernest (10) | American author, journalist |
| Henry, O. (1) | pen name of the American writer William Sydney Porter |
| Hepburn, Audrey (5) | English–Dutch-born American-English actress |
| Hepburn, Katharine (1) | American actress |
| Herbert, Frank (2) | American sci-fi author |
| Herold, Don (1) | American comedian, author, illustrator, and cartoonist |
| Hertzberg, Hendrik (1) | American journalist |
| Heschel, Abraham Joshua (1) | Polish-born American rabbi, theologian, and philosopher |
| Hildebrand, Joel (1) | American educator |
| Hill, Napoleon (1) | American author |
| Hillis, Danny (1) | American scientist, engineer, entrepreneur, and author |
| Hitchens, Christopher (5) | British American author and journalist |
| Hocking, Amanda (1) | American writer |
| Hodgell, P. C. (1) | American fantasy writer, artist, professor |
| Hoffman, Alice (1) | American author |
| Hoffman, Dustin (2) | American actor and producer |
| Holland, Josiah Gilbert (1) | American author and poet |
| Holliwell, Raymond (1) | American author |
| Holtz, Lou (5) | American football coach and motivational speaker |
| Hope, Bob (5) | English-born American comedian |
| Hopkins, Ellen (1) | American novelist |
| Hornsby, Rogers (1) | American baseball player and coach |
| Hosseini, Khaled (8) | Afghan-born American author and doctor |
| Houston, Whitney (1) | American singer |
| Howe, Edgar Watson (1) | American author |
| Hubbard, Elbert (18) | American author and philosopher |
| Hubbard, Frank McKinney (2) | American cartoonist, journalist, comedian |
| Hubble, Edwin (1) | American astronomer |
| Hudson, Kate (1) | American actress |
| Huffman, Felicity (1) | American actress |
| Hurston, Zora Neale (1) | American singer |
| I | |
| Iacocca, Lee (2) | American businessman |
| Iles, George (1) | American author |
| Ingersoll, Robert G. (8) | American political leader |
| Irving, John (1) | American novelist |
| Irving, Washington (2) | American author and historian |
| Ito, Joi (1) | Japanese-American activist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist |
| Ivins, Molly (1) | pen name of Mary Tyler Ivins, American newspaper columnist, author, political commentator, and humorist |
| J | |
| J. Gaines, Ernest (1) | African-American author |
| Jackson, Jesse Louis (1) | American activist |
| Jackson, Michael (9) | American musician |
| Jackson, Samuel L. (1) | American actor |
| James, Henry (2) | American-born English author |
| James, William (6) | American psychologist and philosopher |
| Jauregui, Lauren (1) | American singer |
| Jay, Francine (5) | American writer, minimalist |
| Jeffers, Susan (1) | American psychologist |
| Jefferson, Thomas (9) | American president, lawyer, inventor |
| Jenkins, A. M. (5) | American author |
| Jenner, Kylie (1) | American TV personality, model and entrepreneur |
| Jett, Joan (1) | American rock singer, songwriter, composer and actress |
| Jillette, Penn (29) | American illusionist and comedian |
| Jobs, Steve (6) | American businessman and inventor |
| Johnson, Barbara (2) | English-American author |
| Johnson, Dwayne (1) | American actor, producer, and wrestler |
| Johnson, Kimberly (1) | American poet and scientist |
| Johnson, Wendell (1) | American psychologist |
| Jolie, Angelina (1) | American actress and model |
| Jones, Franklin Pierce (2) | American author, comedian |
| Jones, James Earl (1) | American actor |
| Jones, Laurie Beth (1) | American author and motivational trainer |
| Jones, Tommy Lee (1) | American actor, director, producer and screenwriter |
| Jong, Erica (3) | American author and teacher |
| Joplin, Janis Lyn (4) | American singer |
| Jordan, David Starr (1) | American biologist and educator |
| K | |
| Kahneman, Daniel (2) | Israeli-American psychologist |
| Kaku, Michio (5) | American theoretical physicist |
| Kanin, Garson (1) | American author and director |
| Kate, Lauren (1) | American author |
| Kaufman, Josh (1) | american business expert, author |
| Kebbel, Arielle (1) | American actress, model and singer |
| Keen, Sam (1) | American author, professor and philosopher |
| Keller, Helen (10) | American deafblind author, political activist, and lecturer |
| Kelley, Kitty (1) | American journalist |
| Kenison, Katrina (4) | American writer |
| Kennedy, Robert F. (1) | American politican |
| Kenyon, Sherrilyn (1) | American writer |
| Kettering, Charles Franklin (1) | American scientist and philosopher |
| Khalifa, Wiz (3) | stage name of Cameron Jibril Thomaz, American rapper |
| Kidd, Sue Monk (3) | American writer |
| Kilmer, Val (1) | American actor |
| King, B. B. (2) | stage name of Riley B. King, American blues musician |
| King, Martin Luther (12) | American clergyman, activist |
| King, Stephen (108) | American author |
| Kingsolver, Barbara (2) | American author |
| Kinison, Sam (1) | American comedian and actor |
| Klein, Stephanie (1) | American blogger and author |
| Kleitman, Daniel (1) | American mathematician |
| Kleypas, Lisa (3) | American author |
| Knox, Jen (1) | American writer |
| Konecky, Edith (1) | American feminist novelist |
| Krauss, Lawrence M. (2) | American physicist |
| Kroc, Ray (2) | American fast food businessman |
| Kuban, Karla (1) | American author |
| Kurtz, Paul (1) | American skeptic and secular humanist |
| Kurzweil, Ray (6) | American inventor and author |
| L | |
| Lady Gaga (3) | stage name of Stefani Germanotta, American singer and songwriter |
| Lamarr, Hedy (1) | Austrian-born American actress and inventor |
| Lamb, Wally (1) | American author |
| Lambert, Adam (2) | American singer, songwriter, and actor |
| Langer, Ellen J. (3) | American psychologist |
| Larson, Gary (1) | American cartoonist |
| Larson, Jonathan (1) | American composer and playwright |
| Lasch, Christopher (1) | American historian and moralist |
| Lautner, Taylor (1) | American actor, model, and martial artist |
| Lawrence, Cooper (1) | American radio veteran and author |
| Lawrence, Jennifer (1) | American actress |
| Lawrence, Mark (1) | American and British novelist |
| Leavitt, Robert Keith (1) | American author |
| Lebowitz, Fran (2) | American author |
| Lederer, Richard (1) | American author, speaker, and teacher |
| Lederman, Leon (1) | American physicist |
| Lee, Bruce (11) | American martial arts instructor and actor |
| Lee, Harper (7) | American author |
| Lee, Stan (1) | pen name of Stanley Martin Lieber, American comic book writer |
| Leguizamo, John (1) | Colombian-born American actor and producer |
| Lehrer, Tom (2) | American singer and mathematician |
| Leonard, Robert Sean (1) | American actor |
| Leto, Jared (1) | American actor and musician |
| Letterman, Elmer G. (2) | American businessman and author |
| Levant, Oscar (4) | American musician, actor, author |
| Levenson, Sam (3) | American comedian |
| Levenstein, Aaron (1) | American academic |
| Levine, Adam (1) | American singer and composer |
| Levine, Robert (1) | American psychologist |
| Levine, Stephen (1) | American poet, author |
| Lewis, Joseph (1) | American freethinker and activist |
| Lewis, Sinclair (1) | American author |
| Liebling, A. J. (1) | American journalist |
| Likert, Rensis (1) | American psychologist |
| Lindbergh, Anne Morrow (1) | American pilot |
| Lindner, Robert M. (1) | American author and psychologist |
| Lindsay, Margaret (1) | American actress |
| Liu, Lucy (1) | Chinese-born American actress |
| Lively, Blake (1) | American actress |
| Livermore, Jesse Lauriston (1) | American stock trader |
| Lombardi, Vince (3) | American coach |
| London, Jack (3) | American author |
| Long, Haniel Clark (1) | American poet and author |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (6) | American author and poet |
| Longoria, Eva (1) | American actress |
| Lopez, Jennifer (1) | American singer and actress |
| Lovato, Demi (4) | American actress and singer |
| Lowry, Lois (1) | American author |
| Lucado, Max (2) | American author and preacher |
| Lugosi, Béla (3) | Hungarian-American actor |
| Lynes, Russell (1) | American art historian and photographer |
| M | |
| MacArthur, Douglas (1) | American general |
| Mackay, Harvey (4) | American businessman |
| MacKinnon, Rebecca (1) | American author |
| Maclaine, Shirley (1) | American actress |
| Madonna (3) | stage name of Madonna Louise Ciccone, Italian-born American singer, actress |
| Maguire, Gregory (2) | American author |
| Mailer, Norman (2) | American author |
| Maltz, Maxwell (1) | American cosmetic surgeon and author |
| Mandelbrot, Benoit (1) | Polish-born, French-American mathematician |
| Mannes, Marya (1) | pen name of Maria von Heimburg Mannes, American author and criticist |
| Manson, Charles (1) | American criminal |
| Manson, Marilyn (6) | American musician |
| Mantle, Mickey (1) | American baseball player |
| Maraboli, Steve (74) | American motivational speaker and author |
| Marden, Orison Swett (1) | American author |
| Marquis, Don (3) | full name Donald Robert Perry Marquis, American comedian and author |
| Marr, Melissa (3) | American author |
| Mars, Bruno (1) | stage name of Peter Gene Hernandez, American singer, songwriter and producer |
| Martin, Dean (1) | American singer, comedian and producer |
| Martin, George R. R. (5) | American novelist, screenwriter, and television producer |
| Martin, Steve (2) | American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician |
| Marx, Chico (1) | American actor |
| Marx, Groucho (3) | American actor and comedian |
| Mathewson, Christy (1) | American baseball player |
| May, Rollo (1) | American psychologist |
| Mayr, Ernst (1) | German-American evolutional biologist |
| McCabe, Charles (1) | American journalist |
| McCarthy, Cormac (1) | American author |
| McCarthy, John (1) | American computer scientist |
| McCay, James T. (1) | American author |
| McConaughey, Matthew (1) | American actor |
| McCourt, Malachy (1) | Irish-American actor, author and politician |
| McCranie, Stephen (1) | American cartoonist and illustrator |
| McKay, David Oman (1) | American religious leader and educator |
| McLaughlin, Mignon (1) | American author and journalist |
| Meacham, Merle L. (1) | American psychologist and teacher |
| Mead, Richelle (5) | American author |
| Meester, Leighton (2) | American actress, singer and model |
| Meltzer, Bernard C. (2) | American radio host |
| Mencken, Henry Louis (12) | American author, criticist |
| Menninger, Karl Augustus (1) | American psychiatrist |
| Merton, Robert K. (1) | American sociologist |
| Meyer, Joyce (1) | pen name of Pauline Joyce Hutchison Meyer, American author and speaker |
| Meyer, Stephenie (29) | American author |
| Michener, James A. (1) | American author |
| Miller, Donald (2) | American author and public speaker |
| Miller, Henry (1) | American author and painter |
| Mirren, Helen (2) | American actress |
| Mitchell, Margaret (1) | American author |
| Mizner, Wilson (2) | American playwright |
| Mlodinow, Leonard (4) | American physicist, author and screenwriter |
| Moning, Karen Marie (1) | American author |
| Monroe, James (1) | American statesman |
| Monroe, Marilyn (28) | American singer and actress |
| Moody, Dwight Lyman (1) | American clergyman |
| Moore, Christopher (9) | American author |
| Moore, Demi (1) | American actress |
| Moore, Shemar (2) | American actor and model |
| Morley, Christopher (3) | American journalist, author and poet |
| Morrison, Jennifer (3) | American actress, model and producer |
| Morrison, Jim (7) | American singer, author, poet, director |
| Mortman, Doris (1) | American author |
| Moynihan, Daniel Patrick (1) | American politician, sociologist |
| Muir, John (1) | Scottish-born American scientist and author |
| Mumford, Lewis (1) | American historian, philosopher of science |
| Myss, Caroline (1) | American author |
| N | |
| Nathan, George Jean (2) | American criticist |
| Nelms, Cynthia (1) | American musician, singer |
| Nelson, Ricky (1) | American singer |
| Neumann, John von (3) | Hungarian-American mathematician |
| Newman, Paul (1) | American actor, director |
| Nicholson, Jack (1) | American actor, filmdirector and producer |
| Nightingale, Earl (1) | American author, motivational speaker |
| Nin, Anais (1) | French-American author |
| Nizer, Louis (1) | English-born American lawyer and author |
| Noel, Alyson (34) | American author |
| Norris, Chuck (1) | American actor |
| Norton, Edward (2) | American actor |
| O | |
| Oliver, Lauren (3) | American author |
| Olsen, Elizabeth (3) | American actress |
| Oppenheim, James (1) | American poet, author |
| Orben, Robert (4) | American author and magician |
| Owens, Jesse (1) | American athlete |
| O`Brien, Dylan (1) | American actor |
| P | |
| Pacino, Al (2) | stage name of Alfredo James Pacino, American actor |
| Padalecki, Jared (1) | American actor |
| Pagels, Douglas (1) | American author |
| Paine, Thomas (6) | English-American author and politician |
| Palahniuk, Chuck (53) | American author |
| Paltrow, Gwyneth (1) | American actress and singer |
| Paolini, Christopher (13) | American author |
| Parcells, Bill (1) | American futball coach |
| Pariser, Eli (26) | American author, political and internet activist |
| Park, Robert (1) | American sociologist |
| Parker, Charlie (1) | American jazz saxophonist and composer |
| Parker, Dorothy (1) | American author, poet |
| Parker, Sarah Jessica (2) | American actress and producer |
| Parsons, Paul (1) | American writer, journalist |
| Parton, Dolly (1) | American singer, actress |
| Patrick, Cat (1) | American author |
| Patterson, James (6) | American author |
| Patton, George Smith (2) | American general |
| Pauling, Linus (2) | American chemist |
| Paulos, John Allen (1) | American mathematician |
| Pausch, Randy (4) | American professor of computer science |
| Pearsall Smith, Logan (1) | American author |
| Perri, Christina (2) | American singer and songwriter |
| Peter, Laurence J. (2) | American educator |
| Petty, Tom (2) | American singer and songwriter |
| Pfeiffer, Michelle (1) | American actress and producer |
| Philips, Emo (2) | American comedian |
| Picoult, Jodi (21) | American author |
| Pierce, Edith Lovejoy (1) | English-American poet |
| Piercy, Marge (1) | American poet, author, and activist |
| Pike, Albert (1) | American lawyer, author, soldier |
| Pilgrim, Peace (1) | American activist |
| Pine, Albert (1) | American author |
| Pinker, Steven (9) | Canadian-American psychologist |
| Piper, John (1) | American Christian preacher and author |
| Pitt, Brad (1) | American actor and producer |
| Plath, Sylvia (3) | American author and poet |
| Poe, Edgar Allan (11) | American author, poet |
| Pohl, Frederick (1) | full name Frederik George Pohl, Jr., American science fiction writer and editor |
| Pollock, Channing (1) | American playwright, criticist |
| Popper, John (1) | American musician |
| Portman, Natalie (1) | American actress |
| Potts, Rolf (5) | American travel writer |
| Pound, Ezra (2) | American poet |
| Presley, Elvis (1) | American singer and actor |
| Presley, Elvis Aaron (2) | American musician and actor |
| Prochnow, Herbert V. (1) | American banking executive |
| Purdy, Ashley (3) | American singer |
| Puzo, Mario Gianluigi (1) | American author |
| Q | |
| Quillen, Robert (1) | American author and comedian |
| Quindlen, Anna (2) | American journalist |
| R | |
| Ram Dass, Baba (1) | pen name of Richard Alpert, American spiritual teacher |
| Ramsey, Dave (1) | American businessman and author |
| Rand, Ayn (8) | Russian-born American author and philosopher |
| Randi, James (4) | Canadian-American stage magician, skeptic |
| Raymo, Chet (1) | American writer, educator |
| Reznor, Michael Trent (2) | American musician, singer and producer |
| Ricci, Christina (1) | American actress |
| Rice, Anne (9) | American author |
| Ritchie, Dennis MacAlistair (2) | American computer scientist |
| Robbins, Anthony (2) | American author |
| Robbins, Tom (2) | American author |
| Robbins, Tony (1) | American author and motivational speaker |
| Roberts, Nora (1) | American author |
| Robinson, Brooks (1) | American baseball player |
| Robinson, Jackie (1) | American baseball player |
| Rodriguez, Michelle (1) | American actress |
| Rodriguez, Paul (2) | Mexican-born American actor |
| Rogers, Carl (1) | American psychologist |
| Rogers, Kenny (1) | American singer, actor |
| Rogers, Will (2) | American comedian, actor |
| Roosevelt, Eleanor (16) | American politician |
| Roth, Veronica (2) | American author |
| Rouda, Kaira (1) | American writer |
| Rowland, Helen (2) | American comedian and journalist |
| Royal, Darrell (1) | American football player and coach |
| Rubin, Gretchen (3) | American author and lawyer |
| Rubin, Harriet (1) | American writer |
| Rudner, Rita (4) | American author and comedian |
| Rumsfeld, Donald (1) | American politician and businessman |
| Runbeck, Margaret Lee (2) | American author |
| Rupp, Joyce (1) | American author and psychologist |
| Russell, Keri (1) | American actress |
| Russell, Kurt (1) | American actor |
| Ruth, Babe (1) | American baseball player |
| Ryan, Carrie (1) | American author |
| Ryder, Winona (2) | American actress and producer |
| S | |
| Sagan, Carl (46) | American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author |
| Salinger, Jerome David (1) | American author |
| Salk, Jonas (1) | American doctor |
| Samuelson, Paul (1) | American economist |
| Sandburg, Carl (6) | American author and poet |
| Sandler, Adam (1) | American actor and producer |
| Santayana, George (10) | American philosopher, author, poet |
| Sarandon, Susan (1) | American actress |
| Sarton, May (2) | pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton, American poet |
| Satir, Virginia (1) | American author and therapist |
| Schattke, Jonathan (1) | American IT technician |
| Scheffer, Victor B. (1) | American biologist |
| Schuller, Robert Harold (3) | American clergyman, author, and TV personality |
| Schulz, Charles Monroe (1) | American cartoonist |
| Schwartz, Morrie (1) | American sociology professor |
| Schwarzenegger, Arnold (6) | Austrian and American bodybuilder, actor, politician |
| Sculley, John (1) | American businessman |
| Seaborg, Glenn T. (2) | American scientist |
| Seagal, Steven (1) | American actor, film producer, screenwriter, martial artist, and musician |
| Sebold, Alice (1) | American author |
| Sedaris, Amy (1) | American actress, author, and comedian |
| Seeger, Pete (1) | American folk singer |
| Segel, Jason (1) | American actor, screenwriter and musician |
| Seinfeld, Jerry (1) | American stand-up comedian |
| Sexton, Anne (1) | American author and poet |
| Shaddix, Jacoby (1) | American musician, singer, songwriter, rapper and actor |
| Shakur, Tupac Amaru (5) | American musician |
| Shames, Laurence (1) | American author and journalist |
| Shapiro, Harold S. (1) | Swedish-American mathematician |
| Sheehan, George (1) | American author |
| Sheen, Fulton John (1) | American bishop |
| Sheffield, Rob (1) | American music journalist and author |
| Shermer, Michael (15) | American science writer |
| Shinn, Florence Scovel (1) | American illustrator and author |
| Shore, Dinah (1) | American singer and actress |
| Shusterman, Neal (1) | American author |
| Simic, Charles (1) | Serbian-American poet |
| Sinatra, Frank (2) | American musician and actor |
| Skinner, B. F. (1) | American psychologist and author |
| Smith, Al (1) | American politician |
| Smith, Kevin (1) | American screenwriter, director, and actor |
| Smith, Will (1) | stage name of Willard Christopher Smith, Jr., American actor, singer, and producer |
| Smolin, Lee (4) | American theoretical physicist |
| Snicket, Lemony (14) | pen name of Daniel Handler, American author |
| Sokal, Alan (1) | American mathematican |
| Spacey, Kevin (1) | American actor, producer and singer |
| Sparks, Nicholas (29) | American author |
| Spence, Gerry (2) | American lawyer |
| Staley, Layne (3) | American musician, singer and author |
| Stallone, Sylvester (1) | American actor, filmdirector, and screenwriter |
| Stein, Gertrude (2) | American author |
| Steinbeck, John (6) | American author |
| Steinem, Gloria (1) | American feminist and author |
| Stengel, Casey (1) | American baseball player and coach |
| Stiefvater, Maggie (7) | American author |
| Stiles, Julia (2) | American actress |
| Stone, Emma (1) | American actress |
| Stone, Sharon (3) | American actress and producer |
| Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1) | American author |
| Streep, Meryl (1) | American actress |
| Strom, Kevin Alfred (1) | American businessman |
| Surowiecki, James (3) | American journalist |
| Suvari, Mena (1) | American actress, fashion designer and model |
| Swift, Taylor (3) | American country-pop singer, songwriter, and actress |
| Swindoll, Charles Rozell (2) | American clergyman and author |
| Szasz, Thomas Stephen (1) | Hungarian-born American psychiatrist |
| T | |
| Taleb, Nassim Nicholas (16) | Lebanese-American essayist, scholar and statistician |
| Tan, Amy (2) | American author |
| Tatum, Channing (1) | American actor and dancer |
| Taylor, Corey (1) | American singer and author |
| Teale, Edmund Way (1) | American naturalist, photographer, writer |
| Tegmark, Max (2) | Swedish-American physicist and cosmologist |
| Thiel, Peter (1) | American entrepreneur |
| Thompson, Hunter S. (1) | American journalist and author |
| Thompson, Kenneth Lane (2) | American computer scientist |
| Thoreau, Henry David (49) | American author, philosopher |
| Thorne, Bella (3) | American actress, singer and model |
| Thurber, James (1) | American author |
| Tomlin, Lily (3) | American actress, producer, author |
| Tracy, Brian (2) | American author |
| Travolta, John (2) | American actor, producer, and director |
| Trump, Donald (2) | American president, businessman and author |
| Tupac, Amaru Shakur (1) | American musician |
| Twain, Mark (58) | American author |
| Tyson, Mike (5) | American boxer |
| Tyson, Neil deGrasse (21) | American astrophysicist |
| U | |
| Ulam, Stanislaw (1) | Polish-American mathematician |
| V | |
| Vaughan, Bill (1) | American author |
| Verghese, Abraham (1) | American doctor and author |
| Vidal, Gore (1) | American author and politician |
| Vijayann, Meera (1) | American citizen journalist |
| Vissell, Joyce (1) | American nurse and psychiatrist |
| Vonnegut, Kurt (11) | American writer |
| Vos Savant, Marilyn (1) | American author |
| W | |
| Wadsworth, Charles (1) | American classical pianist and musical promoter |
| Waits, Tom (6) | American musician and actor |
| Waldfogel, Joel (5) | American economist |
| Walken, Christopher (2) | American actor |
| Walker, Paul (1) | American actor |
| Wang, Steve (1) | Taiwan-born American director and producer |
| Ward, J. R. (3) | pen name of Jessica Rowley Pell Bird, American author |
| Ward, William Arthur (6) | American author |
| Warhol, Andy (8) | American painter |
| Warren, Rick (1) | American evangelical Christian minister and author |
| Washington, Denzel (1) | American actor, director and producer |
| Watkins, Susan M. (1) | American author, journalist |
| Watson, Thomas John (1) | American businessman |
| Watterson, Bill (1) | American cartoonist |
| Watts, Alan Wilson (3) | British-American philosopher |
| Way, Gerard (1) | American singer and cartoonist |
| Wayne, John (1) | American actor |
| Weedn, Flavia (1) | American painter and author |
| Weiler, A. H. (1) | American writer and critic |
| Weinberg, Steven (4) | Nobel-díjas American physicist |
| Welch, H. Gilbert (2) | American doctor |
| West, Kanye (1) | American rapper, producer and director |
| West, Mae (5) | American actress |
| Westerfeld, Scott (6) | American author |
| Westmoreland, William (1) | American general |
| Wharton, Edith (2) | American author |
| Wheaton, Wil (1) | American actor, author and blogger |
| Wheeler, John Archibald (2) | American physicist |
| White, Betty (2) | American actress |
| White, Jack (1) | American musician, producer |
| Whitehead, Alfred North (5) | English-born American philosopher |
| Whitman, Walt (7) | American poet |
| Whittier, John Greenleaf (1) | American poet |
| Wiesel, Elie (3) | Romanian-born American author and activist |
| Wilcox, Ella Wheeler (2) | American author, poet |
| Wilde, Larry (1) | American comedian and author |
| Wilder, Donald (1) | American director and producer |
| Wilder, Laura Ingalls (1) | American author |
| Wilder, Thornton Niven (6) | American author |
| Will, George (2) | American journalist |
| Willard, Nancy (1) | American author and poet |
| Williams, Bern (1) | American programmer |
| Williams, Robin (1) | American actor, director, producer |
| Williams, Tennessee (3) | American author |
| Williamson, Marianne (2) | American author, spiritual activist |
| Willis, Bruce (1) | American actor, producer and singer |
| Wilson, Edward O. (1) | American biologist |
| Wilson, Flip (1) | American comedian and actor |
| Wilson, Kemmons (1) | American businessman |
| Wilson, Owen (1) | American actor and screenwriter |
| Wilson, Thomas Francis (1) | American actor, author and comedian |
| Winchell, Walter (1) | American commentator |
| Winfrey, Oprah (6) | American media proprietor, talk show host, actress |
| Winter, Barbara (1) | American author |
| Winter, William (1) | American author |
| Witherspoon, Reese (2) | American actress |
| Wolfe, Tom (1) | American author and journalist |
| Wooden, John Robert (1) | American basketball player and coach |
| Wright, Frank Lloyd (2) | American architect |
| Wright, Stephen (2) | American writer |
| Wright, Steven (1) | American comedian, writer |
| Wyse, Lois (1) | American advertising executive, author |
| Y | |
| Yan, Martin (1) | Chinese-American chef and food writer |
| Youngman, Henny (14) | stage name of Henry Youngman, English-born American comedian |
| Z | |
| Zamperini, Louis (1) | American athlete |
| Zappa, Frank (3) | American composer, guitarist, producer and director |
| Zelazny, Roger (2) | full name Roger Joseph Zelazny, American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels |
| Ziglar, Zig (4) | American author |
| Zuckerman, Phil (1) | American sociologist and author |