1 - 63 of63 famous, important and notable playwrights ranked by their popularity onOn This Day.
1. William Shakespeare
2. Brendan Behan
3. Anton Chekhov
4. George Bernard Shaw
5. Wole Soyinka
6. Arthur Miller
7. Tennessee Williams
8. Richard Steele
9. Noël Coward
10. James Baldwin
11. Langston Hughes
12. Neil Simon
13. Vladimir Mayakovsky
14. Eugene O'Neill
15. Moss Hart
16. Lillian Hellman
17. Bertolt Brecht
18. Gerhart Hauptmann
19. Maxim Gorky
20. Tom Stoppard
21. Betty Comden
22. Henrik Ibsen
23. Ben Jonson
24. Günter Grass
25. W. S. Gilbert
26. Adolph Green
27. Pierre Corneille
28. Samuel Beckett
29. Peter Shaffer
30. Frank Wedekind
31. Joseph Addison
32. Terence Rattigan
33. Jean Anouilh
34. Aleksandr Ostrovsky
35. Colley Cibber
36. Euripides
37. Olympe de Gouges
38. August Wilson
39. Elmer Rice
40. Jean Racine
41. Dion Boucicault
42. Edward Albee
43. Maxwell Anderson
44. Alan Ayckbourn
45. Thornton Wilder
46. John Van Druten
47. Martin McDonagh
48. Arthur Kopit
49. Melvin Van Peebles
50. Archibald MacLeish
51. Clyde Fitch
52. Wendy Wasserstein
53. Harold Pinter
54. Friedrich Dürrenmatt
55. Karel Čapek
56. Jean Genet
57. Thomas Kyd
58. Eugene Ionesco
59. Marc Connelly
60. David Mamet
61. Moliere
62. Clifford Odets
63. Carlo Goldoni