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