Famous Poets - page 5

The Most Famous Poets
Name	Birthday	Nationality	Bio
Sarojini Naidu	February 13, 1879	Indian	Sarojini Naidu was an Indian freedom fighter and poet
Pablo Neruda	July 12, 1904	Chilean	Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet, politician and Nobel laureate
Henrik Ibsen	March 20, 1828	Norwegian	Henrik Ibsen was a famous Norwegian playwright often considered as the father of modern theater
Boris Pasternak	February 10, 1890	Russian	Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian novelist, poet and translator
Walt Whitman	May 31, 1819	American	Walt Whitman was an American poet, journalist and humanist
James Weldon Johnson	June 17, 1871	American	James Weldon Johnson is credited with lot of firsts in his lifetime
W B Yeats	June 13, 1865	Irish	William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright
Muhammad Iqbal	November 9, 1877	Pakistani	Muhammad Iqbal was a philosopher, poet and politician in British India and is regarded as being the inspiration behind the Pakistan movement
Gabriela Mistral	April 7, 1889	Chilean	Gabriela Mistral was the pseudonym used by Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, a Chilean poet, educator and feminist who became the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945.
Robert Burns	January 25, 1759	Scottish	Robert Burns was a famous Scottish poet and lyricist, who was also known as the national poet of Scotland