[
    {
        "Name": "Yamato Takehiko",
        "Birth Year": "1055",
        "Death Year": "1135",
        "Nationality": "Japan",
        "Notable Works": "Shuji Suisho",
        "Style": "Kana",
        "Influences": "Taira no Kiyomori"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Zhang Zhi",
        "Birth Year": " \"1186\"",
        "Death Year": " \"1260\"",
        "Nationality": " \"China\"",
        "Notable Works": " \"Regular Script\"",
        "Style": " \"Xingkai\"",
        "Influences": " \"Wang Xizhi\""
    },
    {
        "Name": "William Morris",
        "Birth Year": "1834",
        "Death Year": "1896",
        "Nationality": "England",
        "Notable Works": "The Kelmscott Press",
        "Style": "Arts and Crafts",
        "Influences": "Gothic Revival"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Suzuki Sh\u014dnen",
        "Birth Year": "1851",
        "Death Year": "1918",
        "Nationality": "Japan",
        "Notable Works": "Calligraphy Research",
        "Style": "Sumi-e",
        "Influences": "Zen Buddhism"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Edward Johnston",
        "Birth Year": "1872",
        "Death Year": "1944",
        "Nationality": "England",
        "Notable Works": "William Morris's Kelmscott Press",
        "Style": "Humanist",
        "Influences": "Gothic Revival"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Sheikh Hamad Al-Thani",
        "Birth Year": "1952",
        "Death Year": NaN,
        "Nationality": "Qatar",
        "Notable Works": "Qatar National Museum Calligraphy",
        "Style": "Contemporary",
        "Influences": "Islamic Art"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham",
        "Birth Year": "965",
        "Death Year": "1040",
        "Nationality": "Iraq",
        "Notable Works": "Optics",
        "Style": "Various Scripts",
        "Influences": "Islamic Golden Age"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Li Bai",
        "Birth Year": "701",
        "Death Year": "762",
        "Nationality": "China",
        "Notable Works": "The Poems of Li Bai",
        "Style": "Chinese Calligraphy",
        "Influences": "Taoism"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Wang Xizhi",
        "Birth Year": "303",
        "Death Year": "361",
        "Nationality": "China",
        "Notable Works": "Lantingji Xu",
        "Style": "Regular Script",
        "Influences": "Confucianism"
    },
    {
        "Name": "John Stevens",
        "Birth Year": "1700",
        "Death Year": "1741",
        "Nationality": "USA",
        "Notable Works": "The Art of Calligraphy",
        "Style": "Penmanship",
        "Influences": "American Colonial"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Kojiro Ikegami",
        "Birth Year": "1895",
        "Death Year": "1977",
        "Nationality": "Japan",
        "Notable Works": "Modern Japanese Calligraphy",
        "Style": "Sumi-e",
        "Influences": "Calligraphy Techniques"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Lisa Engelbrecht",
        "Birth Year": "1953",
        "Death Year": NaN,
        "Nationality": "USA",
        "Notable Works": "The Art of Brush Lettering",
        "Style": "Contemporary",
        "Influences": "Brush Lettering"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Beatrix Potter",
        "Birth Year": "1866",
        "Death Year": "1943",
        "Nationality": "England",
        "Notable Works": "Peter Rabbit Series",
        "Style": "Illustrated Calligraphy",
        "Influences": "Victorial Style"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Alberto Giacometti",
        "Birth Year": "1901",
        "Death Year": "1966",
        "Nationality": "Switzerland",
        "Notable Works": "Sculptural Calligraphy",
        "Style": "Surrealism",
        "Influences": "Abstract Expressionism"
    },
    {
        "Name": "U Thant",
        "Birth Year": "1909",
        "Death Year": "1974",
        "Nationality": "Burma",
        "Notable Works": "Preface on Calligraphy",
        "Style": "Diplomatic Calligraphy",
        "Influences": "Buddhism"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Zhou Enlai",
        "Birth Year": "1898",
        "Death Year": "1976",
        "Nationality": "China",
        "Notable Works": "Calligraphy of Zhou Enlai",
        "Style": "Regular Script",
        "Influences": "Mao Zedong"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Henri Matisse",
        "Birth Year": "1869",
        "Death Year": "1954",
        "Nationality": "France",
        "Notable Works": "Jazz Series of Prints",
        "Style": "Artistic Lettering",
        "Influences": "Fauvism"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Jacques Derrida",
        "Birth Year": "1930",
        "Death Year": "2004",
        "Nationality": "Algeria/France",
        "Notable Works": "Writing and Difference",
        "Style": "Philosophical Calligraphy",
        "Influences": "Deconstructionism"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Usee Yamakawa",
        "Birth Year": "1894",
        "Death Year": "1963",
        "Nationality": "Japan",
        "Notable Works": "Kyoto Calligraphy",
        "Style": "Sumi-e",
        "Influences": "Traditional Styles"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Maya Angelou",
        "Birth Year": "1928",
        "Death Year": "2014",
        "Nationality": "USA",
        "Notable Works": "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings",
        "Style": "Literary Calligraphy",
        "Influences": "Personal Narrative"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Norihiro Matsuda",
        "Birth Year": "1943",
        "Death Year": NaN,
        "Nationality": "Japan",
        "Notable Works": "Modern Japanese Calligraphy",
        "Style": "Kanji Maid",
        "Influences": "Traditional Japanese"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Charles Rennie Mackintosh",
        "Birth Year": "1868",
        "Death Year": "1928",
        "Nationality": "Scotland",
        "Notable Works": "Mackintosh Furniture",
        "Style": "Art Nouveau",
        "Influences": "Architectural Influence"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Mary E. L. Wright",
        "Birth Year": "1878",
        "Death Year": "1934",
        "Nationality": "USA",
        "Notable Works": "Lyman Beecher",
        "Style": "Formal Calligraphy",
        "Influences": "American Civil Society"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Ruth M. F. Dunham",
        "Birth Year": "1947",
        "Death Year": NaN,
        "Nationality": "USA",
        "Notable Works": "The Spirit of Calligraphy",
        "Style": "Contour Lettering",
        "Influences": "Expressive Forms"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Zari A. Al-Khaldi",
        "Birth Year": "1970",
        "Death Year": NaN,
        "Nationality": "Saudi Arabia",
        "Notable Works": "Quran Inscriptions",
        "Style": "Arabic Script",
        "Influences": "Islamic Culture"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Natsume S\u014dseki",
        "Birth Year": "1867",
        "Death Year": "1916",
        "Nationality": "Japan",
        "Notable Works": "Kokoro",
        "Style": "Literary Calligraphy",
        "Influences": "Meiji Era"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Mark Twain",
        "Birth Year": "1835",
        "Death Year": "1910",
        "Nationality": "USA",
        "Notable Works": "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn",
        "Style": "Penmanship",
        "Influences": "American Literature"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Ferdinand de Lesseps",
        "Birth Year": "1805",
        "Death Year": "1894",
        "Nationality": "France",
        "Notable Works": "Suez Canal Plans",
        "Style": "Architectural Calligraphy",
        "Influences": "Civil Engineering"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Shinsei Sakuma",
        "Birth Year": "1901",
        "Death Year": "1980",
        "Nationality": "Japan",
        "Notable Works": "Modern Haiku",
        "Style": "Sumi-e",
        "Influences": "Poetic Calligraphy"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec",
        "Birth Year": "1864",
        "Death Year": "1901",
        "Nationality": "France",
        "Notable Works": "Posters and Prints",
        "Style": "Art Nouveau",
        "Influences": "Visual Calligraphy"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Hiroshi Yoshida",
        "Birth Year": "1876",
        "Death Year": "1950",
        "Nationality": "Japan",
        "Notable Works": "Woodblock Prints",
        "Style": "Sumi-e",
        "Influences": "Traditional Japanese"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Claude Monet",
        "Birth Year": "1840",
        "Death Year": "1926",
        "Nationality": "France",
        "Notable Works": "Impression, Sunrise",
        "Style": "Artistic Calligraphy",
        "Influences": "Impressionism"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Frederick G. Hibbard",
        "Birth Year": "1881",
        "Death Year": "1946",
        "Nationality": "USA",
        "Notable Works": "Lincoln Memorial Engravings",
        "Style": "Sculptural Calligraphy",
        "Influences": "Public Art"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Goethe Muzaffer",
        "Birth Year": "1930",
        "Death Year": "1999",
        "Nationality": "Turkey",
        "Notable Works": "Turkish Poetry",
        "Style": "Contemporary",
        "Influences": "Folkloric"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Adolf Loos",
        "Birth Year": "1870",
        "Death Year": "1933",
        "Nationality": "Austria",
        "Notable Works": "Ornament and Crime",
        "Style": "Modernism",
        "Influences": "Architectural Writing"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Keith Haring",
        "Birth Year": "1958",
        "Death Year": "1990",
        "Nationality": "USA",
        "Notable Works": "Public Murals",
        "Style": "Street Art",
        "Influences": "Contemporary Compositions"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Rainer Maria Rilke",
        "Birth Year": "1875",
        "Death Year": "1926",
        "Nationality": "Austria",
        "Notable Works": "Letters to a Young Poet",
        "Style": "Literary Calligraphy",
        "Influences": "Modernist"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Annie Leibovitz",
        "Birth Year": "1949",
        "Death Year": NaN,
        "Nationality": "USA",
        "Notable Works": "Photography and Calligraphy",
        "Style": "Photo-Lettering",
        "Influences": "Contemporary Artist"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Yoko Ono",
        "Birth Year": "1933",
        "Death Year": NaN,
        "Nationality": "Japan",
        "Notable Works": "Conceptual Art",
        "Style": "Conceptual Calligraphy",
        "Influences": "Avant-garde"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Mark Rothko",
        "Birth Year": "1903",
        "Death Year": "1970",
        "Nationality": "Latvia/USA",
        "Notable Works": "Color Field Painting",
        "Style": "Abstract Expressionism",
        "Influences": "Visual Art"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Lucian Freud",
        "Birth Year": "1922",
        "Death Year": "2011",
        "Nationality": "Germany/UK",
        "Notable Works": "Figurative Painting",
        "Style": "Contemporary Calligraphy",
        "Influences": "Realism"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Roberto Burle Marx",
        "Birth Year": "1909",
        "Death Year": "1994",
        "Nationality": "Brazil",
        "Notable Works": "Landscape Architecture",
        "Style": "Tropical Calligraphy",
        "Influences": "Modernism"
    },
    {
        "Name": "David Hockney",
        "Birth Year": "1937",
        "Death Year": NaN,
        "Nationality": "UK",
        "Notable Works": "Painting and Photography",
        "Style": "Contemporary",
        "Influences": "Visual Calligraphy"
    }
]