Poets- Wordsworth, etc.
Authors- Murakami, the guy who wrote Zorba the Greek, Gerald Durrell, PG Wodehouse, Agatha Christie, Erle Stanley Gardner, Rex Stout in English, Pu.La. Deshpande and Bha. Ra. Bhagwat in Marathi
Playwrights- Shakespeare, Girish Karnad, Mahesh Dattani.
Songwriters/lyricists- Anand Bakshi, Neeraj, Majrooh Sultanpuri, Gulshan Bawra,..
Music Composers- SD Burman, RD Burman, OP Nayyar, Ravi, Roshan, Rajesh Roshan..
Photographers- Don't know all their names, but many over the years
Film directors- Kurosawa, Guru Dutt, the man who directed Cinema Paradiso, Ramesh Sippy, Shyam Benegal, the director of Lunch Box, Manmohan Desai, J. Lee Thompson (McKenna's Gold), Alfred Hitchcock, Mel Brooks,
Comics creators- Goscinny and Uderzo, Herge, Lee Falk (Mandrake and Phantom were his creations), Walt Disney
And of course, ordinary mortals, many of whom I know in all these categories and more!
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