- E.R. Eddison
- Johannes Kepler
- François Rabelais
- André Malraux
- Madame de La Fayette
- Alexander Pope
- Jaroslav Hašek
- Max Beerbohm
- Ivan Goncharov
- George Grossmith
- Maimonides
- William Godwin
- Paul Roche
- Abdul Rahman Munif
- Alfred Döblin
- G.J. Warnock
- David Berman
- Sextus Empiricus
- Claude Bernard
- Weedon Grossmith