- male, deceased (1778)
- François-Marie Arouet, better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, deist and philosopher known for his w...
- male, deceased (1687)
- Francis Turretin was the grandson of Francesco Turrettini, who left his native Lucca in 1574 and settled in Geneva in 1592. Francis was born to...
- male, 63 years old
- Henryk Modest Broder (born (as Henryk Marcin Broder) August 20, 1946) is a Jewish-German journalist and author. He mainly writes about Jewish...
- male
- Martin Marprelate was the name used by the anonymous author or authors of the Marprelate tracts. These circulated illegally in the years 1588 and...
- male
- Scott Taylor is a Canadian journalist who specializes in military and war reporting. His coverage has included wars in Cambodia, Africa, the...
- male
- Jacob ben Reuben was a Spanish-Jewish rabbi and polemicist of the twelfth century. In response to attacks by the convert Petrus Alphonsi, he wrote...
- male
- Atticus, all of what is known of this philosopher are fragments of his book preserved in Eusebius' Preparatio Evangelica, Atticus was vehemently...
- female, 412 years old
- Rachel Speght was a poet and polemicist. She was the first Englishwoman to identify herself, by name, as a polemicist and critic of gender...
- male
- Adi Shankara, a Hindu philsospher of the Advaita Vedanta school, wrote many works in his life-time of thirty two years; however, many works thought...
- male
- Walter of St Victor (d. c. 1180) was a mystic philosopher and theologian, and an Augustinian canon of Paris. Nothing is known about Walter except...
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