Profiles — Creators

Creators

Directors, broadcasters, animators and makers whose work shaped what audiences watched.

3rd-century BCE Greek poet

Theocritus was a Greek poet from Sicily, Magna Graecia, and the creator of Ancient Greek pastoral poetry.

German novelist and poet (1819–1898)

Theodor Fontane was a German novelist and poet.

Father of modern political Zionism (1860–1904)

Theodor Herzl was a Hungarian Jewish journalist and lawyer who was the father of modern political Zionism.

German journalist and politician (1884-1963)

Theodor Heuss was a German politician who served as the first president of West Germany from 1949 to 1959.

German classical scholar and historian (1817–1903)

Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist.

American novelist and journalist (1871–1945)

Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school.

French painter (1791–1824)

Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault was a French painter and lithographer.

French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic (1811–1872)

Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic.

Greek philosopher (c.371-c.287 BC)

Theophrastus was an ancient Greek philosopher and naturalist.