French poet and author (1364 – c. 1430)
Christine de Pizan
Christine de Pizan or Pisan, was an Italian-born court writer for King Charles VI of France and several French royal dukes, in both prose and poetry.
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English American author and journalist (1949–2011)
Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Eric Hitchens was a British and American author and journalist.
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English dramatist, poet and translator (1564–1593)
Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe, was an English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era.
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American novelist, essayist
Chuck Palahniuk
Charles Michael Palahniuk is an American novelist who describes his work as transgressive fiction.
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King of Siam (1853-1910)
Chulalongkorn
Chulalongkorn, posthumously honoured as King Chulalongkorn the Great, was the fifth king of Siam from the Chakri dynasty, titled Rama V.
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Roman statesman, lawyer, orator, and philosopher (106–43 BC)
Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, and writer who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises of the Roman Republic that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire.
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Communist activist, and advocate for women's rights (1857–1933)
Clara Zetkin
Clara Zetkin was a German Marxist theorist, communist activist, and advocate for women's rights.
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French philosopher; (1715-1771)
Claude Adrien Helvétius
Claude Adrien Helvétius was a French philosopher, Freemason, and littérateur.
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French early socialist theorist (1760-1825)
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, better known as Henri de Saint-Simon, was a French political, economic and socialist theorist and businessman whose thought had a substantial influence on politics, economics, sociology and the philosophy of scien
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