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Top 100 Writers tagged #Theatre

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The most famous writers associated with Theatre right now — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	new	William Shakespeare	United Kingdom	Writers	93.1	3.4
#2	new	Miguel de Cervantes	Spain	Writers	91.7	10.0
#3	new	Rabindranath Tagore	India	Writers	91.3	10.0
#4	new	Hans Christian Andersen	—	Writers	91.3	10.0
#5	new	Leo Tolstoy	—	Writers	90.3	1.2
#6	new	Anton Chekhov	—	Writers	89.9	3.8
#7	new	Edgar Allan Poe	United States	Writers	89.9	12.5
#8	new	Victor Hugo	France	Writers	89.6	0.8
#9	new	Oscar Wilde	United Kingdom	Writers	89.3	10.0
#10	new	Voltaire	France	Writers	88.8	0.0
#11	new	Alexander Pushkin	—	Writers	88.6	0.7
#12	new	Charles Dickens	United Kingdom	Writers	88.4	0.0
#13	new	Jules Verne	France	Writers	87.5	13.2
#14	new	Agatha Christie	United Kingdom	Writers	86.9	11.6
#15	new	Molière	France	Writers	86.4	0.0
#16	new	Ernest Hemingway	United States	Writers	84.9	0.2
#17	new	Sophocles	—	Writers	84.8	0.0
#18	new	Friedrich Schiller	Germany	Writers	84.8	12.0
#19	new	Gabriel García Márquez	—	Writers	84.6	0.4
#20	new	Naguib Mahfouz	Egypt	Writers	83.0	10.8
#21	new	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	—	Writers	81.9	15.0
#22	new	George Bernard Shaw	United Kingdom	Writers	81.9	0.0
#23	new	Arthur Conan Doyle	United Kingdom	Writers	81.6	0.0
#24	new	Maxim Gorky	—	Writers	81.3	0.0
#25	new	Octave Mirbeau	France	Writers	81.1	15.0
#26	new	Alexandre Dumas	France	Writers	81.1	0.7
#27	new	Euripides	—	Writers	81.1	10.7
#28	new	Guy de Maupassant	France	Writers	80.6	7.3
#29	new	Heinrich Heine	Germany	Writers	80.5	1.6
#30	new	Ivan Turgenev	—	Writers	80.0	23.9
#31	new	William Faulkner	United States	Writers	80.0	10.0
#32	new	Elizabeth Taylor	United Kingdom	Actors	79.9	10.4
#33	new	Kālidāsa	—	Writers	79.8	0.0
#34	new	Nikolai Gogol	—	Writers	79.5	2.4
#35	new	Robert Louis Stevenson	United Kingdom	Writers	79.4	2.9
#36	new	Henrik Ibsen	Norway	Writers	79.3	0.0
#37	new	Émile Zola	France	Writers	79.2	0.0
#38	new	W. B. Yeats	—	Writers	79.0	2.2
#39	new	Walter Scott	United Kingdom	Writers	78.5	14.5
#40	new	T. S. Eliot	United States	Writers	78.1	0.0
#41	new	Taras Shevchenko	—	Writers	78.0	10.0
#42	new	Mary Shelley	United Kingdom	Writers	77.9	10.4
#43	new	Federico García Lorca	Spain	Writers	77.8	2.7
#44	new	Aeschylus	—	Writers	77.7	0.8
#45	new	Aristophanes	—	Writers	77.6	2.0
#46	new	Bertolt Brecht	Germany	Writers	77.5	0.0
#47	new	Knut Hamsun	Norway	Writers	77.2	6.2
#48	new	Doris Lessing	United Kingdom	Writers	76.9	4.7
#49	new	Ayn Rand	—	Writers	76.8	15.2
#50	new	Vladimir Nabokov	—	Writers	76.8	0.0
#51	new	Stefan Zweig	Austria	Writers	76.7	16.3
#52	new	Maurice Maeterlinck	—	Writers	76.7	16.7
#53	new	Jean de La Fontaine	France	Writers	76.4	0.9
#54	new	Maya Angelou	United States	Writers	76.1	0.0
#55	new	Boris Pasternak	—	Writers	76.0	1.2
#56	new	André Gide	France	Writers	75.6	0.6
#57	new	Percy Bysshe Shelley	United Kingdom	Writers	75.3	0.0
#58	new	Luigi Pirandello	Italy	Writers	75.1	1.5
#59	new	Gerhart Hauptmann	—	Writers	75.1	12.5
#60	new	Erich Maria Remarque	Germany	Writers	75.0	3.8
#61	new	George Sand	France	Writers	74.9	0.6
#62	new	Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson	Norway	Writers	74.8	16.2
#63	new	Günter Grass	Germany	Writers	74.6	0.4
#64	new	Mikhail Lermontov	—	Writers	74.5	2.7
#65	new	Romain Rolland	France	Writers	74.5	0.0
#66	new	Mario Vargas Llosa	—	Writers	74.4	1.5
#67	new	José Saramago	Portugal	Writers	74.2	0.4
#68	new	Yukio Mishima	Japan	Writers	74.2	17.0
#69	new	Truman Capote	United States	Writers	74.0	5.2
#70	new	W. Somerset Maugham	United Kingdom	Writers	73.7	27.2
#71	new	Grazia Deledda	Italy	Writers	73.6	4.4
#72	new	Rainer Maria Rilke	Germany	Writers	73.4	0.0
#73	new	Robert Frost	United States	Writers	73.3	1.3
#74	new	Eugene O'Neill	United States	Writers	73.1	5.2
#75	new	Arthur Miller	United States	Writers	73.0	4.1
#76	new	Mikhail Bulgakov	—	Writers	72.9	2.8
#77	new	Elias Canetti	United Kingdom	Writers	72.4	15.0
#78	new	Luís de Camões	Portugal	Writers	72.2	6.2
#79	new	Elfriede Jelinek	Austria	Writers	72.2	1.0
#80	new	Nadine Gordimer	South Africa	Writers	71.9	1.4
#81	new	Alexandre Dumas fils	France	Writers	71.6	15.0
#82	new	Guillaume Apollinaire	France	Writers	71.5	16.6
#83	new	Elie Wiesel	United States	Writers	71.5	10.0
#84	new	F. Scott Fitzgerald	United States	Writers	71.5	0.0
#85	new	Tennessee Williams	United States	Writers	71.4	10.0
#86	new	Vladimir Mayakovsky	—	Writers	71.3	0.0
#87	new	Lope de Vega	Spain	Writers	71.2	0.0
#88	new	Pierre Corneille	France	Writers	71.2	7.8
#89	new	Joseph Brodsky	—	Writers	71.0	0.0
#90	new	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing	Germany	Writers	71.0	15.0
#91	new	Pedro Calderón de la Barca	Spain	Writers	70.9	15.0
#92	new	Ivan Bunin	France	Writers	70.8	0.0
#93	new	Jean Cocteau	France	Writers	70.8	0.0
#94	new	François Mauriac	France	Writers	70.8	1.9
#95	new	Nelly Sachs	Germany	Writers	70.8	9.8
#96	new	Dario Fo	Italy	Writers	70.8	4.6
#97	new	Jean Racine	France	Writers	70.7	1.3
#98	new	Kurt Vonnegut	United States	Writers	70.7	0.0
#99	new	Gao Xingjian	China	Writers	70.6	10.0
#100	new	Ray Bradbury	United States	Writers	70.5	0.0