Georg Büchner

male, deceased (1837)
typhus, nobility, Expressionism, wozzeck, naturalism, Non-fiction writer…WorkingClass
Karl Georg Büchner ; "Lenz" is a novella based on the life of the Sturm und Drang poet Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz. In 1836 his second play, "...
Joe R. Lansdale

Joe R. Lansdale

male, 58 years old
splatterpunk, Western fiction, elvis, From Nacogdoches, Texas, WorkingClass, Batman The Animated Series
Joe R. Lansdale (born October 28, 1951, Gladewater, Texas) is an American author and martial-arts expert. He has written novels and stories in many...
Walter Greenwood

Walter Greenwood

male, deceased (1974)
Hankey Park, Cleft Stick, council, second world war, labour party, city council…WorkingClass
Walter Greenwood (December 17, 1903 - September 13, 1974) was an English novelist, best known for the socially influential novel "Love on the Dole"...

Roy Bailey

male
socialist, English, singing, Social Studies, WorkingClass, mainstream
Roy Bailey (born 20 October 1935, in London), is a British socialist folk singer. Roy began his singing career in a skiffle group in 1958. Colin...
Harriet Andersson

Harriet Andersson

female, 77 years old
actor, WorkingClass, skinny-dipping, Summer with Monika, Nudity in film, Guldbagge Award
Harriet Andersson (born 14 January 1932 in Stockholm) is a Swedish actress, best known for being one of Ingmar Bergman's regular actresses. She is...
Edwin Muir

Edwin Muir

male, deceased (1959)
Harvard University faculty, St Andrews, novelist, Scottish, Harvard University, Translator…WorkingClass
Edwin Muir was a Scottish poet, novelist and translator born on a farm in Deerness on the Orkney Islands in the remote northeast of Scotland....

Fred Rose

male, deceased (1983)
spy, House of Commons, communist, polish, Canadian, trade union…WorkingClass
Fred Rose (born Fred Rosenberg) (December 7 1907 - March 16 1983) was a Communist politician and trade union organizer in Canada. He was born in...

Stewart Smith

male
Toronto city councillor, Trotskyist, Communist International, Social Gospel, Congress of Industrial Organizations, Toronto City Council…capitalist class, WorkingClass
Stewart Smith was a long-time leading member of the Communist Party of Canada. He also served on Toronto City Council for a period in the 1940s....
Steve Gibson

Steve Gibson

male, 51 years old
WorkingClass, uefa cup, Freedom of the City, new stadium, rags to riches, Middlesbrough F.C. chairmen
Steve Gibson (born 1958) is an entrepreneur and the chairman of Middlesbrough Football Club. He is acclaimed in Middlesbrough for being a local...

Tom Wood

male, 58 years old
photographer, All Zones Off Peak, street photographer, street photography, i-D, Victoria & Albert Museum…WorkingClass
Tom Wood (b. 1951 Ireland), is a notable contemporary street photographer working in the north of England, particularly Liverpool. Born in the...