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 Literary Contest

665 Literary Contests (Poems, Short-stories, and Plays) in Any Language of the World (You can participate in as many as you like) on:

S/N.

Historical Personage

Period

1. Manu  -
2. Moses (14th century BC)
3. Homer (9th century BC)
4. Zoroaster (7th century BC)
5. Kapila (7th Century BC)
6. Parmenides (6th century BC)
7. Thales (624–547 BC)
8. Anaxamander (610–546 BC)
9. Pythagoras (580–500 BC)
10. Mahavir Jain (6th Century BC)
11. Buddha (6th Century BC)
12. Xenophanes (560–478 BC)
13. Lao Tzu;  -
14. Confucious (551–479 BC)
15. Anaxamenes (flourished 545 BC)
16. Leucippus (500–440 BC)
17. Heraclitus (544–483 BC)
18. Anaxagoras (500–428 BC)
19. Zeno (490–430 BC)
20. Empidocles (490–430 BC)
21. Protogoras (480–410 BC)
22. Socrates (469–399 BC)
23. Gorgias (483–375 BC)
24. Mo Tzu (479–381 BC)
25. Democritus (460–370 BC)
26. Antisthenes (435–370 BC)
27. Aristippus (435–366 BC)
28. Plato (428–348 BC)
29. Yang Chu (395–335 BC)
30. Aristotle (384–322 BC)
31. Mencius (372–289 BC)
32. Theophrastus (372–287 BC)
33. Diogenes (b 320)
34. Euclid (b300BC)
35. Kautilya (fl. 300 BC)
36. Pyrrho (365–275 BC)
37. Epicurus (341–270 BC)
38. Zeno (336–264 BC)
39.  Arcesilaus (315–241 BC)
40. Hsun Tzu (313–238 BC)
41. Archimedes (287–212 BC)
42. Chrysippus (281–208 BC)
43. Carneades (214–139 BC)
44. Valmiki  -
45. Ved Vyas  -
46. Patanjali (fl. 2nd Century BC)
47. Cicero (106–43 BC)
48. Spartacus (died 71 BC)
49. Lucretius Carno (99–55 BC)
50. Aenesidemus (1st Century BC)
51. Christ  -
52. Senecca (4 BC–65 AD)
53. Wang Chung (27–104 AD)
54. Epictitus (50–138 AD)
55. Agrippa  -
56. Marcus (121–180 AD)
57. Akshapada (1st/2nd Century AD)
58. Nagarjuna (fl. 200AD)
59. Sextus Empricus (200–250 AD)
60. Plotinus (205–270 AD)
61. Hypatia  -
62. Saint Augustine (354–400 AD)
63. Asanga (4th Century)
64. Proclus (410–485 AD)
65. Vatsayana (5th Century)
66. Aryabhatta (Flourished 476 AD)
67. Vasubandhu (5th Century AD)
68. Boethius (480–524 AD)
69. Dignaga (6th Century AD)
70. Muhammad (poems and short-stories only)
71. Abu Bakr  -
72. Omar Ibn al Khattab  -
73. Uthman Ibn Affan  -
74. Ali Ibn Abu Talib  -
75. Dharamkirti (7th Century AD)
76. Mimamsakas  -
77. Kumarila (7th Century)
78. Prabhakara (7th Century)
79. Bharthari (7th century AD)
80. Omar bin Abdul Aziz  -
81. Shankracharya  -
82. Ibn Jabir  -
83. Muhammad bin Musa al Khawarizmi  -
84. Ali Ibn Rabbah al Tabari  -
85. Mandana Misra (8th Century)
86. Al Kindi (800–870 AD)
87. Erigene (810–877 AD)
88. Salikantha (9th Century)
89. Parthasarthi Misra (10th Century)
90. Vacaspati Misra  -
91. Udayana (10th Century)
92. Ibn Zakaria  -
93. Abul Hassan Ali  -
94. Al Razi  -
95. Mansur al Hallaj  -
96. Al Masudi  -
97. Abu Ali Sina (Avicenna; 980–1037 AD)
98. Al Baruni  -
99. Chang Tsai (1020–1077 AD)
100. Anselm (1033–1109 AD)
101. Prabhachandra (11th Century)
102. Yamunacarya (11th Century)
103. Ramanuja (11th Century)
104. Omar Khayyam (1048–1131 AD)
105. Roscelin (1050–1112 AD)
106. Al Ghazzali  -
107. Abelard Peter (1069–1142 AD)
108. Abdul Qadir Jeelani (b1077)
109. Al Idrisi (1100–1166 AD)
110. Ibn Rushd (Averroes;1126–1198)
111. Madhva (12th Century)
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Historical Personage

Period

112. Chu Hsi (1130–1200 AD)
113. Khwaja Moeenuddin Chishti (1139–1236 AD)
114. Rumi  -
115. Gangesa Upadhyay (12th/13th Century)
116. Nasir Uddin al Tusi (died 1274 AD)
117. Abelard the Great (1207–1280 AD)
118. Roger Bacon (1214–1292 AD)
119. Bonaventura (1221–1274 AD)
120. Aquinas (1225–1274 AD)
121.  Nimbkara (13th Century)
122. Prasadhar Misra  -
123. Lully Ramond (1235–1315 AD)
124. Duns (1265–1308 AD)
125. Muammar Sinan  -
126. Occam (1285–1349 AD)
127. Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406 AD)
128. Gadadhara Bhattacharya  -
129. Ramananda (1400–1570 AD)
130. Cusa Nicholas (1401–1464 AD)
131. Kabir (1440–1518 AD)
132. Guru Nanak (1469–1539 AD)
133. Guru Angad  -
134. Guru Amar Das  -
135. Guru Ram Das  -
136. Guru Arjun Mala  -
137. Guru Hargobid  -
138. Guru Har Rai  -
139. Guru Hari Krishan  -
140. Guru Teg Bahadur  -
141. Guru Gobind Singh  -
142. Erasmus (1469–1536 AD)
143. Copernicus (1473–1543 AD)
144. Ragunath Siromani (1475–1550 AD)
145. Thomas More (1478–1535 AD)
146. Luther Martin (1483–1546 AD)
147. Chaitanya (1485–1539 AD)
148. Khwaja Mu’in-ud-Din Hassan  -
149. Montaigne (1533–1592 AD)
150. Charron Pierre (1541–1603 AD)
151.  Bruno (1548–1600 AD)
152. Francis Bacon (1561–1626 AD)
153. Galileo (1564–1642 AD)
154. Shakespeare (1564–1616 AD)
155. Campanella (1568–1639 AD)
156. Vasudeva Sarvabhama (16th Century)
157. Bohm Jacob (1575–1624 AD)
158. Hobbes (1588–1679 AD)
159. Gassendi (1592–1655 AD)
160. Descartes (1596–1650 AD)
161. John Locke (1632–1704 AD)
162. Spinoza (1632–1677 AD)
163. Newton (1642–1727 AD)
164. Leibniz (1646–1716 AD)
165. Bayle Pierre (1647–1706 AD)
166. Berkeley (1685–1753 AD)
167. Voiltaire (1694–1778 AD)
168. Rousseau (1712–1778 AD)
169. Alembert (1717–1783 AD)
170. Kant (1724–1808 AD)
171. Babeuf (1760–1797 AD)
172. Saint Simon (1760–1825 AD)
173. Fitche (1762–1814 AD)
174. Dalton (1766–1844 AD)
175. Hegel (1770–1831 AD)
176. Robert Owen (1771–1858 AD)
177. Fourier (1772–1837 AD)
178. Charles Darwin (1808–1882 AD)
179. Belinsky (1811–1848 AD)
180. Kierkegard (1813–1855 AD)
181. Karl Marx (1818–1883 AD)
182. Frederick Engels (1820–1895 AD)
183. Tolstoy (1828–1910 AD)
184. Chernyshevsky (1828–1889 AD)
185. Maxwell (1831–1879 AD)
186. Nietzsche (1844–1900 AD)
187. Freud (1856–1939 AD)
188. Dewey (1859–1952 AD)
189. Santyana (1863–1952 AD)
190. Maxim Gorky (1868– AD)
191. V. I. Lenin (1870–1924 AD)
192. Rosa Luxemberg (1871–1919 AD)
193. Karl Leibneikth  -
194. Betrand Russell (1872–1970 AD)
195. Trotsky (1880–1939 AD)
196. Jaspers (1883–1969 AD)
197. Mussolini (1883–1945 AD)
198. Hitler (1889–1945 AD)
199. Ho Chi Min (1890–1969 AD)
200. Mao Tse Tung (1893–1976 AD)
201. Sartre (1905–1980 AD)
202. Indira Gandhi  -
203. Ronald Reagan  -
204. Margaret Thatcher  -
205. Pinochet  -
206. Zia-ul-Haq  -
207. Sanjay Gandhi  -
208. George Bush Senior  -
209. Sadam Hussain  -
210. Boris Yeltsin  -
211. Laloo Yadav  -
212. Tony Blaire  -
213. Bill Clinton  -
214. Narendra Modi  -
215. Uma Bharati  -
216. George Bush  -
217. Ussama Bin Ladin  -
218. Veerapan  -
219. Sonia Gandhi  -
220. Manmohan Singh  -
221. Priyanka Gandhi  -
222. Rahul Gandhi  -

Closing Dates: 1–11 and 169–180: 30th June 2011; 12–16: 30th September 2011; 17–20 and 181–185: 31st December 2011; 21–25 and 186–189: 30th June 2011; 26–30 and 190–193: 31st December 2012; 31–42: 30th June 2013; 43–50: 31st December, 2013; 51–60: 30th June 2014; 61–70: 31st December, 2014; 71–80: 30th June 2015; 81–90: 31st December, 2015; 91–100: 30th June 2016; 101–110: 31st December, 2016; 111–120: 30th June 2017; 121–130: 31st December, 2017; 131–140: 30th June 2018; 141–150: 31st December, 2018; 151–160: 30th June 2019; 161–168: 31st December, 2019; 194–200: 30th June 2020; 201–210: 31st December, 2020; and 211–222: 30th June 2021.

The decision of the Judges will be the final.
The organizers reserve the right to cancel any of the above topics from the competition.
Credit shall be given to the factual content (60%), literary presentation (20%), and simplicity and clarity of language (20%).

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