| | Name | Birth Year | Death Year | Nationality | Notable Works | Style | Influences | |---:|:--------------------------------|:-------------|:-------------|:---------------|:----------------------------------|:--------------------------|:--------------------------| | 0 | Yamato Takehiko | 1055 | 1135 | Japan | Shuji Suisho | Kana | Taira no Kiyomori | | 1 | Zhang Zhi | "1186" | "1260" | "China" | "Regular Script" | "Xingkai" | "Wang Xizhi" | | 2 | William Morris | 1834 | 1896 | England | The Kelmscott Press | Arts and Crafts | Gothic Revival | | 3 | Suzuki Shōnen | 1851 | 1918 | Japan | Calligraphy Research | Sumi-e | Zen Buddhism | | 4 | Edward Johnston | 1872 | 1944 | England | William Morris's Kelmscott Press | Humanist | Gothic Revival | | 5 | Sheikh Hamad Al-Thani | 1952 | nan | Qatar | Qatar National Museum Calligraphy | Contemporary | Islamic Art | | 6 | Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham | 965 | 1040 | Iraq | Optics | Various Scripts | Islamic Golden Age | | 7 | Li Bai | 701 | 762 | China | The Poems of Li Bai | Chinese Calligraphy | Taoism | | 8 | Wang Xizhi | 303 | 361 | China | Lantingji Xu | Regular Script | Confucianism | | 9 | John Stevens | 1700 | 1741 | USA | The Art of Calligraphy | Penmanship | American Colonial | | 10 | Kojiro Ikegami | 1895 | 1977 | Japan | Modern Japanese Calligraphy | Sumi-e | Calligraphy Techniques | | 11 | Lisa Engelbrecht | 1953 | nan | USA | The Art of Brush Lettering | Contemporary | Brush Lettering | | 12 | Beatrix Potter | 1866 | 1943 | England | Peter Rabbit Series | Illustrated Calligraphy | Victorial Style | | 13 | Alberto Giacometti | 1901 | 1966 | Switzerland | Sculptural Calligraphy | Surrealism | Abstract Expressionism | | 14 | U Thant | 1909 | 1974 | Burma | Preface on Calligraphy | Diplomatic Calligraphy | Buddhism | | 15 | Zhou Enlai | 1898 | 1976 | China | Calligraphy of Zhou Enlai | Regular Script | Mao Zedong | | 16 | Henri Matisse | 1869 | 1954 | France | Jazz Series of Prints | Artistic Lettering | Fauvism | | 17 | Jacques Derrida | 1930 | 2004 | Algeria/France | Writing and Difference | Philosophical Calligraphy | Deconstructionism | | 18 | Usee Yamakawa | 1894 | 1963 | Japan | Kyoto Calligraphy | Sumi-e | Traditional Styles | | 19 | Maya Angelou | 1928 | 2014 | USA | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Literary Calligraphy | Personal Narrative | | 20 | Norihiro Matsuda | 1943 | nan | Japan | Modern Japanese Calligraphy | Kanji Maid | Traditional Japanese | | 21 | Charles Rennie Mackintosh | 1868 | 1928 | Scotland | Mackintosh Furniture | Art Nouveau | Architectural Influence | | 22 | Mary E. L. Wright | 1878 | 1934 | USA | Lyman Beecher | Formal Calligraphy | American Civil Society | | 23 | Ruth M. F. Dunham | 1947 | nan | USA | The Spirit of Calligraphy | Contour Lettering | Expressive Forms | | 24 | Zari A. Al-Khaldi | 1970 | nan | Saudi Arabia | Quran Inscriptions | Arabic Script | Islamic Culture | | 25 | Natsume Sōseki | 1867 | 1916 | Japan | Kokoro | Literary Calligraphy | Meiji Era | | 26 | Mark Twain | 1835 | 1910 | USA | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Penmanship | American Literature | | 27 | Ferdinand de Lesseps | 1805 | 1894 | France | Suez Canal Plans | Architectural Calligraphy | Civil Engineering | | 28 | Shinsei Sakuma | 1901 | 1980 | Japan | Modern Haiku | Sumi-e | Poetic Calligraphy | | 29 | Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | 1864 | 1901 | France | Posters and Prints | Art Nouveau | Visual Calligraphy | | 30 | Hiroshi Yoshida | 1876 | 1950 | Japan | Woodblock Prints | Sumi-e | Traditional Japanese | | 31 | Claude Monet | 1840 | 1926 | France | Impression, Sunrise | Artistic Calligraphy | Impressionism | | 32 | Frederick G. Hibbard | 1881 | 1946 | USA | Lincoln Memorial Engravings | Sculptural Calligraphy | Public Art | | 33 | Goethe Muzaffer | 1930 | 1999 | Turkey | Turkish Poetry | Contemporary | Folkloric | | 34 | Adolf Loos | 1870 | 1933 | Austria | Ornament and Crime | Modernism | Architectural Writing | | 35 | Keith Haring | 1958 | 1990 | USA | Public Murals | Street Art | Contemporary Compositions | | 36 | Rainer Maria Rilke | 1875 | 1926 | Austria | Letters to a Young Poet | Literary Calligraphy | Modernist | | 37 | Annie Leibovitz | 1949 | nan | USA | Photography and Calligraphy | Photo-Lettering | Contemporary Artist | | 38 | Yoko Ono | 1933 | nan | Japan | Conceptual Art | Conceptual Calligraphy | Avant-garde | | 39 | Mark Rothko | 1903 | 1970 | Latvia/USA | Color Field Painting | Abstract Expressionism | Visual Art | | 40 | Lucian Freud | 1922 | 2011 | Germany/UK | Figurative Painting | Contemporary Calligraphy | Realism | | 41 | Roberto Burle Marx | 1909 | 1994 | Brazil | Landscape Architecture | Tropical Calligraphy | Modernism | | 42 | David Hockney | 1937 | nan | UK | Painting and Photography | Contemporary | Visual Calligraphy |