List of playwrights by nationality and year of birth

Dramatists listed in chronological order by country and language:

See also: List of playwrights; List of early-modern British women playwrights; Lists of writers

Albania See also: List of Albanian writers (1850–1904) Sami Frashëri

Assyria See also: List of Assyrian writers (born 1965) Rosie Malek-Yonan (born 1969) Monica Malek-Yonan

Australia (1799–1873) Henry Melville (1813–1868) Charles Harpur (1822–1878) William Akhurst (1842–1880) Walter Cooper (1843–1913) Garnet Walch (1843–1908) Alfred Dampier (1846–1881) Marcus Clarke (1846–1918) Mary Foott (1860–1921) Charles Haddon Spurgeon Chambers (1862–1938) Edmund Duggan https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/duggan-edmund-6032 (1865–1944) Alex Melrose (1867–1905) Guy Boothby (1869–1942) George Beeby (1873–1953) Dora Wilcox (1877–1946) Harry Tighe (1878–1943) Louis Esson (1865–1935) Carlton Dawe (1881–1917) Sumner Locke (1884–1946) Walter J. Turner (1888–1954) Lionel Shave (1894–1918) Adrian Consett Stephen (1906–1954) Malcolm Afford (1912–1988) Kylie Tennant (1916–1999) Morris West (1917–2000) Jack Davis (1921–2024) Ray Lawler (1923–2002) Dorothy Hewett (1927–2015) Alan Seymour (born 1933) Wendy Richardson (born 1941) Kenneth G. Ross (born 1942) David Williamson (1944–2006) Alex Buzo (1948–1997) Roger Bennett (1948–2017) Jimmy Chi (1950–2003) Nick Enright (born 1950) Louis Nowra (born 1953) Justin Fleming (born 1955) Michael Gow (born 1959) Richard Frankland (born 1960) Jane Harrison (1964–1989) Bill Neskovski (born 1969) Wesley Enoch (born 1978) Van Badham (born 1978) Lally Katz (born 1978) Tom Taylor

Austria See also: List of German-language playwrights; List of German-language authors; List of Austrian writers (1791–1872) Franz Grillparzer (1801–1862) Johann Nestroy (1814–1874) Friedrich Kaiser (1839–1889) Ludwig Anzengruber (1863–1934) Hermann Bahr (1866–1945) Richard Beer-Hofmann (1874–1929) Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1936) Karl Kraus (1880–1942) Robert Musil (1885–1969) Franz Theodor Csokor (1886–1980) Oskar Kokoschka (1891–1958) Ferdinand Bruckner (1895–1959) Arnolt Bronnen (1897–1976) Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1901–1938) Ödön von Horváth (1911–1986) Fritz Hochwälder (1921–1988) Erich Fried (1941–2005) Wolfgang Bauer (born 1942) Peter Handke (born 1944) Peter Turrini

Azerbaijan See also: List of Azerbaijani dramatists and playwrights (1854–1926) Najaf bey Vazirov (1865–1927) Sakina Akhundzadeh (1870–1930) Abdurrahim bey Hagverdiyev (1872–1950) Mammed Said Ordubadi (1874–1918) Abbas Sahhat (1875–1939) Suleyman Sani Akhundov (1879–1945) Huseyngulu Sarabski (1882–1941) Huseyn Javid (1899–1934) Jafar Jabbarly (1910–1981) Rasul Rza (1911–1993) Mirza Ibrahimov (1913–1981) Nigar Rafibeyli (1927–2025) Vidadi Babanli (1935–2016) Magsud Ibrahimbeyov (born 1937) Hamid Arzulu (born 1938) Anar Rzayev (born 1949) Natig Rasulzadeh (born 1957) Afag Masud

Bangladesh (1908–1990) Natyaguru Nurul Momen (1925–1971) Munir Chowdhury (1942–2008) Abdullah Al Mamun (1935–2019) Momtazuddin Ahmed (born 1948) Mamunur Rashid (1949–2008) Selim Al Deen

Belarus (1880–1948) Peretz Hirschbein (1888–1962) H. Leivick

Belgium (1862–1949) Maurice Maeterlinck (1885–1970) Fernand Crommelynck (1898–1962) Michel de Ghelderode (1913–2012) Félicien Marceau (1945–1999) Michèle Fabien (born 1960) Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Bosnia and Herzegovina (born 1955) Zlatko Topčić (1944–2024) Abdulah Sidran (1950–2015) Safet Plakalo (born 1962) Nenad Veličković

Brazil (1815–1848) Martins Pena (1831–1852) Álvares de Azevedo (1839–1908) Machado de Assis (1857–1913) Aluísio Azevedo (1912–1980) Nelson Rodrigues (1923–2012) Millôr Fernandes (1927–2014) Ariano Suassuna (1931–2009) Augusto Boal (1948–1996) Caio Fernando Abreu

Canada See also: List of Canadian playwrights; List of Canadian writers; List of Quebec writers; List of French Canadian writers from outside Quebec; List of Canadian plays (1893–1975) Merrill Denison (1909–1999) Gratien Gélinas (1913–1995) Robertson Davies (1930–2016) Marcel Dubé (born 1953) Louise Bombardier (born 1961) Vittorio Rossi (born 1964) David Gow

Czech Republic See also: List of Czech writers (1884–1968) Max Brod (1889–1942) Paul Kornfeld (1890–1938) Karel Čapek (1936–2011) Václav Havel

Denmark See also: List of Danish authors (1684–1754) Ludvig Holberg (1779–1850) Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger (1791–1860) Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1797–1870) Henrik Hertz (1898–1944) Kaj Munk (1901–1961) Kjeld Abell

Dominica (1948–2023) Alwin Bully

Egypt (1835–1902) Abu Khalil Qabbani

France See also: List of French playwrights; List of French-language authors (died c. 1210) Jean Bodel (c. 1237–c. 1288) Adam de la Halle (c. 1470/80–c. 1538/39) Pierre Gringoire (1532–1573) Étienne Jodelle (c. 1535–c. 1607) Jean de La Taille (1540–1619) Pierre de Larivey (1544–1590) Robert Garnier (c. 1570–1632) Alexandre Hardy (1595–1676) Jean Desmaretz de Saint-Sorlin (1601–1667) Georges de Scudéry (1604–1686) Jean Mairet (1606–1658) Pierre Du Ryer (1606–1684) Pierre Corneille (1622–1673) Molière (1625–1709) Thomas Corneille (1635–1688) Philippe Quinault (1638–1701) Edme Boursault (1639–1699) Jean Racine (1640–1723) David-Augustin de Brueys (1650–1721) Jean Palaprat (1654–1724) Charles Rivière Dufresny (1659–1741) Augustin Nadal (1661–1725) Florent Carton Dancourt (1665–1707) Madame Ulrich (1668–1747) Alain-René Lesage (1674–1762) Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1680–1754) Philippe Néricault Destouches (1688–1763) Pierre Carlet de Marivaux (1692–1754) Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée (1694–1778) Voltaire (1709–1777) Jean-Baptiste Louis Gresset (1713–1784) Denis Diderot (1732–1799) Pierre de Beaumarchais (1740–1814) Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1750–1794) Philippe François Nazaire Fabre d'Églantine (1793–1843) Casimir-Jean-François Delavigne (1798–1855) Adam Mickiewicz (1799–1850) Honoré de Balzac (1802–1870) Alexandre Dumas, père (1802–1885) Victor Hugo (1804–1876) George Sand (1805–1882) Henri Auguste Barbier (1810–1857) Alfred de Musset (1811–1899) Adolphe Philippe d'Ennery (1812–1859) Zygmunt Krasiński (1815–1888) Eugène Marin Labiche (1820–1889) Émile Augier (1823–1891) Théodore de Banville (1824–1895) Alexandre Dumas, fils (1831–1897) Henri Meilhac (1834–1908) Ludovic Halévy (1837–1899) Henry Becque (1840–1897) Alphonse Daudet (1842–1908) François Coppée (1848–1912) Alexandre Bisson (1848–1917) Octave Mirbeau (1848–1918) Georges Ohnet (1853–1914) Jules Lemaître (1854–1928) François de Curel (1857–1915) Paul Hervieu (1858–1922) Alfred Capus (1858–1929) Georges Courteline (1858–1932) Eugène Brieux (1859–1940) Henri Lavedan (1859–1945) Maurice Donnay (1861–1949) Lucien Descaves (1862–1921) Georges Feydeau (1862–1949) Maurice Maeterlinck (1866–1947) Tristan Bernard (1868–1918) Edmond Rostand (1868–1955) Paul Claudel (1869–1915) Gaston de Caillavet (1869–1955) Émile Fabre (1872–1922) Henri Bataille (1872–1927) Robert de Flers (1873–1907) Alfred Jarry (1875–1937) Henri Duvernois (1875–1944) Henri Ghéon (1876–1953) Henri Bernstein (1877–1937) Francis de Croisset (1879–1949) Jacques Copeau (1880–1918) Guillaume Apollinaire (1881–1958) Roger Martin du Gard (1882–1941) James Joyce (1882–1944) Jean Giraudoux (1882–1951) Henri-René Lenormand (1882–1962) René Fauchois (1884–1973) Alexandre Arnoux (1885–1957) Sacha Guitry (1885–1970) François Mauriac (1886–1970) Fernand Crommelynck (1887–1945) Édouard Bourdet (1888–1972) Jean-Jacques Bernard (1889–1963) Jean Cocteau (1889–1973) Gabriel Marcel (1890–1974) André Birabeau (1892–1975) André Obey (1894–1972) Jacques Deval (1895–1970) Jean Giono (1896–1948) Antonin Artaud (1896–1972) Henry de Montherlant (1899–1965) Jacques Audiberti (1899–1974) Marcel Achard (1900–1982) Georges Neveux (1900–1998) Julien Green (1902–1967) Marcel Aymé (1905–1980) Jean-Paul Sartre (1906–1989) Samuel Beckett (1908–1970) Arthur Adamov (1909–1988) Thierry Maulnier (1909–1994) Eugène Ionesco (1910–1986) Jean Genet (1910–1987) Jean Anouilh (1912–1998) Félix Morisseau-Leroy (1913–1960) Albert Camus (1913–2012) Félicien Marceau (1914–1996) Marguerite Duras (1917–1987) Georges Arnaud (1920–2011) Jean Dutourd (1924–2017) Armand Gatti (1927–1991) François Billetdoux (1930–2013) Sławomir Mrożek

Georgia See also: List of Georgian writers (1802–1869) Alexander Orbeliani (1813–1864) Giorgi Eristavi (1824–1901) Raphael Eristavi (1862–1931) David Kldiashvili (1882–1962) Grigol Robakidze (1904–1938) Gerzel Baazov (born 1977) Lasha Bugadze (born 1980) Nestan Kvinikadze

Germany See also: List of German-language playwrights; List of German-language authors (1616–1664) Andreas Gryphius (1700–1766) Johann Christoph Gottsched (1724–1803) Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1729–1781) Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1737–1823) Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg (1749–1825) Maler Müller (1749–1832) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1751–1792) Jakob Lenz (1752–1806) Johann Anton Leisewitz (1752–1831) Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger (1759–1805) Friedrich Schiller (1759–1814) August Wilhelm Iffland (1761–1819) August von Kotzebue (1770–1843) Friedrich Hölderlin (1774–1829) Amandus Gottfried Adolf Müllner (1777–1811) Heinrich von Kleist (1788–1857) Baron Joseph von Eichendorff (1796–1840) Karl Immermann (1801–1836) Christian Dietrich Grabbe (1806–1884) Heinrich Laube (1811–1878) Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow (1813–1837) Georg Büchner (1813–1863) Friedrich Hebbel (1813–1865) Otto Ludwig (1816–1895) Gustav Freytag (1839–1911) Martin Greif (1862–1946) Gerhart Hauptmann (1865–1944) Max Halbe (1866–1933) Paul Ernst (1870–1938) Ernst Barlach (1876–1947) Ernst Hardt (1878–1945) Georg Kaiser (1882–1961) Leonhard Frank (1884–1958) Lion Feuchtwanger (1886–1969) Johannes von Guenther (1887–1945) Bruno Frank (1888–1960) Curt Goetz (1889–1942) Paul Kornfeld (1890–1940) Walter Hasenclever (1894–1959) Hans Henny Jahnn (1895–1952) Alfred Neumann (1898–1956) Bertolt Brecht (1901–1938) Ödön von Horváth (1906–1970) Stefan Andres (1906–1972) Eberhard Wolfgang Möller (1910–1990) Ulrich Becher (1916–1991) Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1921–1947) Wolfgang Borchert (1925–2017) Tankred Dorst (1927–2015) Günter Grass (1928–2003) Peter Hacks (1931–2020) Rolf Hochhuth

Ghana (1912–1998) Félix Morisseau-Leroy (1924–1978) Joe de Graft (1924–1996) Efua Sutherland (1942–2023) Ama Ata Aidoo (1946–2018) Asiedu Yirenkyi

Greece See also: List of Greek artists (c. 525 BC–c. 456 BC) Aeschylus (c. 495 BC–c. 406 BC) Sophocles (c. 485 BC–c. 406 BC) Euripides (c. 448 BC–c. 400 BC) Agathon (c. 445 BC–c. 385 BC) Aristophanes (c. 343 BC–c. 290 BC) Menander

Haiti (1912–1998) Félix Morisseau-Leroy

Hungary See also: List of Hungarian writers (1747–1811) György Bessenyei (1773–1885) Mihály Csokonai Vitéz (1786–1839) Izidor Guzmics (1788–1830) Károly Kisfaludy (1791–1830) József Katona (1800–1855) Mihály Vörösmarty (1800–1866) Gergely Czuczor (1814–1878) Ede Szigligeti (1823–1864) Imre Madách (1842–1891) Gergely Csíky (1845–1918) Lajos Dóczi (1863–1954) Ferenc Herczeg (1869–1944) Dezső Szomory (1878–1952) Ferenc Molnár (1880–1974) Melchior Lengyel (1888–1967) Lajos Egri (1890–1942) Sándor Hunyady (1900–1975) Gyula Háy (1901–1938) Ödön von Horváth (1901–1975) László Németh (1902–1983) Gyula Illyés (1912–1979) István Örkény (1917–2007) Magda Szabó (1927–2006) András Sütő (1930–1989) Erzsébet Galgóczi (1932–2002) János Nyíri (1934–2012) István Csurka (1934–2022) György Moldova (born 1942) Péter Nádas (1943–2010) György Schwajda (born 1946) György Spiró (born 1950) Miklós Vámos (born 1953) Lajos Parti Nagy (born 1960) Zsolt Pozsgai

India (1861–1941) Rabindranath Tagore (1938–2019) Girish Karnad

Iran (born 1938) Bahram Bayzai (1939–2007) Akbar Radi (born 1952) Rosie Malek-Yonan (born 1954) Monica Malek-Yonan

Iraq (1867–1950) Pîremêrd

Ireland See also: List of Irish dramatists; List of writers from Northern Ireland (1728–1774) Oliver Goldsmith (1735–1812) Isaac Bickerstaffe (1784–1862) James Sheridan Knowles (c. 1820–1890) Dion Boucicault (1852–1932) Lady Gregory (1852–1933) George Moore (1853–1923) William Boyle (1854–1900) Oscar Wilde