List of playwrights by nationality and year of birth

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 • (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 • (born 1927) 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==