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Aaron McGruder
American writer and cartoonist (born 1974)
Abanindranath Tagore
Indian painter and writer (1871–1951)
Abd al-Samad
Indian artist (1500-1593)
Adolf Loos
Austrian and Czechoslovak architect and theorist of modern architecture
Adolf Wölfli
Swiss artist (1864–1930)
Adolphe Sax
Belgian musical instrument designer and musician
Adrian Frutiger
Swiss typeface designer
Ai Weiwei
Chinese conceptual artist and dissident
Akira Toriyama
Japanese manga artist (1955–2024)
Akira Yoshizawa
Japanese origamist
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Finnish painter (1865-1931)
Alan Martin (writer)
British comics writer (born 1966)
Albert Namatjira
Australian painter (1902–1959)
Albert Speer
German architect and Nazi planner (1905–1981)
Albert Uderzo
French comic book artist, best known as illustrator of the Astérix series
Alberto Giacometti
Swiss sculptor and painter (1901–1966)
Albrecht Dürer
German painter, printmaker and theorist (1471–1528)
Alcamenes
Ancient Greek sculptor
Aldo Rossi
Italian architect (1931–1997)
Alessandro Algardi
Italian sculptor (1598-1654)
Alexander Archipenko
Ukrainian and American avant-garde artist, sculptor, and graphic artist
Alexander McQueen
British fashion designer (1969–2010)
Alexander Rodchenko
Russian artist and designer (1891–1956)
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer and computer engineer, creator of the video game "Tetris"
Alexey Shchusev
Russian architect (1873-1949)
Alfred Eisenstaedt
American photojournalist
Alfred Mosher Butts
American architect who invented Scrabble
Alfred Sisley
19th-century French painter
Alfred Stieglitz
American photographer
Aliquli Jabbadar
Iranian painter (1666–1694)
Allan Kaprow
American artist (1927–2006)
Alphonse Mucha
Czechoslovak photographer, painter and illustrator
Alvar Aalto
Finnish architect and designer (1898–1976)
Álvaro Siza Vieira
Portuguese architect (born 1933)
Alvin Langdon Coburn
American photographer
Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Italian painter (1290–1348)
Amedeo Modigliani
Italian painter and sculptor
Amrita Sher-Gil
Hungarian-Indian painter
André Derain
French painter and engraver
André Kertész
Hungarian photographer (1894 – 1985)
André Le Nôtre
French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France
Andrea del Sarto
Italian painter (1486-1530)
Andrea del Verrocchio
15th century Italian sculptor, goldsmith and painter
Andrea della Robbia
Italian Renaissance sculptor, especially in ceramics (1435–1525)
Andrea Mantegna
Italian Renaissance painter (1431–1506)
Andrea Palladio
16th-century Italian Renaissance architect in the Republic of Venice
Andrea Pisano
14th century Italian sculptor and architect
Andreas Gursky
German artist and photographer
André-Charles Boulle
French cabinetmaker (1642-1732)
Andrei Rublev
Medieval Russian artist
Andy Warhol
American artist, film director and producer
Angel De Cora
Winnebago painter
Angelica Kauffman
18th/19th-century Swiss Neoclassical painter
Anish Kapoor
British-Indian artist (born 1954)
Anjolie Ela Menon
Indian artist
Anna Atkins
19th-century English botanist and photographer
Annibale Carracci
Bolognese painter (1560–1609)
Annie Leibovitz
American photographer (born 1949)
Anthony van Dyck
17th-century Flemish Baroque artist
Antoine Bourdelle
French sculptor (1861-1929)
Antoine Watteau
French painter
Antoine-Jean Gros
French painter
Anton Raphael Mengs
German-Bohemian painter active in Dresden, Rome and Madrid (1728-1779)
Antonello da Messina
15th-century Italian painter
Antonio Canova
Italian Neoclassical sculptor (1757–1822)
Antonio da Correggio
Italian Renaissance painter (1489–1534)
Antonio Stradivari
Italian stringed instrument maker
Apelles
4th century BC Greek painter
Apollodorus of Damascus
2nd century Syrian Roman architect and engineer
Arata Isozaki
Japanese architect
Aristide Maillol
French artist
Arne Jacobsen
Danish architect
Arno Breker
German sculptor, a favorite of Adolf Hitler.
Arnold Böcklin
Swiss Symbolist painter (1827–1901)
Arnolfo di Cambio
13th century Italian architect and sculptor
Arshile Gorky
Armenian-American painter
Artemisia Gentileschi
Italian painter (1593–1650s)
Aubrey Beardsley
English illustrator and author
August Macke
German painter of the expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter
Augusta Savage
American sculptor
Auguste Rodin
French sculptor
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
American artist, sculptor and coin engraver
B. V. Doshi
Indian architect
Balthasar Neumann
German architect (1687-1753)
Banksy
Pseudonymous English graffiti artist and painter
Barbara Hepworth
English artist and sculptor
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Spanish Baroque painter (1617-1682)
Bartolomeo Cristofori
Italian maker of musical instruments
Ben Enwonwu
Nigerian painter and sculptor (1917-1994)
Benjamin Henry Latrobe
English architect
Benvenuto Cellini
Florentine sculptor and goldsmith
Bernard Leach
British studio potter and art teacher
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Danish sculptor (1770–1844)
Berthe Morisot
19th-century French artist
Bill Gold
American graphic designer
Bill Mitchell (automobile designer)
Automobile designer (1912-1988)
Bill Watterson
American cartoonist
Bob Kane
American comic book artist, the creator of Batman
Bob Loveless
American businessman and knife-maker
Brett Whiteley
Australian artist (1939-1992)
Bridget Riley
British painter
Bronzino
Italian Mannerist painter (1503-1572)
Bruce Onobrakpeya
Nigerian painter and sculptor
Bruno Taut
German architect
Buckminster Fuller
American philosopher, architect and inventor (1895–1983)
Bunny Yeager
American photographer and model
Callicrates
Ancient Greek architect
Calvin Klein
American fashion designer
Camille Claudel
French sculptor and graphic artist
Camille Pissarro
French painter
Canaletto
Italian painter of landscapes (1697-1768)
Caravaggio
Italian painter (1571–1610)
Carl Andre
American artist
Carl Barks
American cartoonist
Carl Larsson
Swedish painter (1853-1919)
Carleton Watkins
American photographer (1829–1916)
Carlo Maderno
Italian architect (1556–1629)
Carlos Raúl Villanueva
Venezuelan architect
Caspar David Friedrich
German Romantic landscape painter (1774–1840)
Cecil Beaton
British photographer, designer, socialite, writer
César Pelli
Argentine architect
Chalermchai Kositpipat
Thai artist
Charb
French caricaturist and journalist (1967-2015)
Charles Addams
American cartoonist
Charles and Ray Eames
American designers and architects
Charles Dana Gibson
American artist and illustrator
Charles Darrow
American board game designer
Charles Demuth
American painter
Charles Frederick Worth
19th-century English fashion designer
Charles Garnier (architect)
French architect
Charles Le Brun
17th-century French painter and art theorist
Charles Lewis Tiffany
Jewelry businessman (1812-1902)
Charles M. Schulz
American cartoonist
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Scottish designer and artist (1868–1962)
Chéri Samba
Congolese painter
Chris Burden
American artist
Christian Dior
French fashion designer
Christian Louboutin
French fashion designer; specializes in shoes
Christopher Wren
English architect
Chu Suiliang
Chinese chancellor
Chuck Close
American painter
Chuck Jones
American animator and filmmaker (1912–2002)
Cimabue
Italian artist (1240–1302)
Cindy Sherman
American photographer
Claes Oldenburg
Swedish-born American sculptor
Clarence Hudson White
American photographer
Claude Lorrain
French painter, draughtsman and etcher
Claude Monet
French painter (1840–1926)
Claude Nicolas Ledoux
French Neoclassical architect
Claus Sluter
French artist
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
Australian Aboriginal artist (1932-2002)
Coco Chanel
French fashion designer (1883–1971)
Constantin Brâncuși
French-Romanian sculptor, photographer and painter
Cristóbal Balenciaga
Spanish fashion designer
Cy Twombly
American painter
Damien Hirst
English artist
Daniel Burnham
American architect and urban designer
Daniel Libeskind
American architect
Daoud Corm
Lebanese painter
Dat So La Lee
Washoe basket weaver
David Adjaye
British architect (born 1966)
David Alfaro Siqueiros
Mexican social realist painter
David d'Angers
French sculptor and medallist (1788-1856)
David Hockney
British artist (born 1937)
Diane Arbus
American photographer (1923–1971)
Diane von Fürstenberg
Belgian fashion designer
Diego Rivera
Mexican muralist (1886–1957)
Diego Velázquez
17th-century Spanish painter
Domenico Fontana
Italian architect born in today's Ticino (1543–1607)
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Italian Renaissance painter from Florence (1448-1494)
Don Bluth
American animator (born 1937)
Don Rosa
American comic book writer and illustrator (born 1951)
Donald Judd
American artist
Donatella Versace
Italian fashion designer
Donatello
Italian Renaissance sculptor
Donato Bramante
Italian architect and painter (1444–1514)
Dondi (graffiti artist)
American graffiti artist
Dong Qichang
Chinese painter, scholar, calligrapher, and art theorist (1555-1636)
Dong Xiwen
Chinese painter
Dorothea Lange
American photojournalist
Dorothy Draper
American interior designer (1889-1969)
Duane Hanson
American sculptor (1925 - 1996)
Duccio
13th and 14th-century Italian painter
E. C. Segar
American cartoonist, 1894-1938
Eadweard Muybridge
English photographer (1830–1904)
Edgar Degas
French artist
Edith Head
American film and television costumer
Edmonia Lewis
African American sculptor
Édouard Manet
19th-century French painter
Eduardo Chillida
Spanish Basque sculptor
Edvard Munch
Norwegian painter and printmaker
Edward Hopper
20th-century American painter
Edward S. Curtis
American photographer
Edward Steichen
American photographer, artist, and curator
Edward Weston
American photographer (1886-1958)
Edwin Landseer
English painter
Eero Saarinen
Finnish-American architect
Egon Schiele
Austrian painter
Eiichiro Oda
Japanese manga artist
Eileen Gray
Irish architect and furniture designer
El Anatsui
Ghanaian artist (born 1944)
El Greco
Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance (1541–1614)
El Lissitzky
Soviet artist, designer, photographer, teacher, typographer and architect
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
French portrait painter (1755–1842)
Elizabeth Zimmermann
Knitting designer and author
Elsa Schiaparelli
Italian fashion designer and couturier
Elsie de Wolfe
American actress and interior decorator (1865-1950)
Emil Nolde
German artist (1867–1956)
Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Aboriginal Australian artist from Utopia, Northern Territory (1910-1996)
Eric Gill
English sculptor, typeface designer, and printmaker (1882–1940)
Erich Mendelsohn
Jewish German architect
Ernő Rubik
Hungarian inventor
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German expressionist painter (1880–1938)
Esther Mahlangu
South African artist
Eugène Atget
French photographer (1857-1927)
Eugène Boudin
French painter
Eugène Delacroix
19th-century French painter
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
French architect and author
Eva Hesse
German-born American sculptor and textile artist (1936-1970)
Fan Kuan
Chinese painter (990-1020)
Félix González-Torres
American conceptual artist
Félix Resurrección Hidalgo
Filipino painter (1855-1913)
Fernando Amorsolo
Filipino painter
Fernando Botero
Colombian painter and sculptor
Filippo Brunelleschi
Italian architect
Filippo Lippi
15th-century Italian Renaissance painter
Fra Angelico
15th-century early Italian Renaissance painter
Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli
Italian architect (1700-1771)
Francesco Borromini
Italian architect and leading figure in Roman Baroque architecture
Francesco Hayez
Italian painter (1791–1882)
Francis Bacon (artist)
Irish-born British figurative painter (1909–1992)
Francis Greenway
British-Australian architect (1777–1837)
Francisco de Zurbarán
Spanish painter (1598–1664)
Francisco Goya
18th and 19th-century Spanish painter and printmaker
François Boucher
18th-century French painter
François Mansart
French architect (1598-1666)
François Rude
French sculptor (1784–1855)
Frank Gehry
Canadian–American architect
Frank Lloyd Wright
American architect (1867–1959)
Frans Hals
17th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands
Franz Marc
German artist
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
French sculptor
Frederic Leighton
English painter and sculptor
Frederic Remington
19th and 20th-century American artist
Frederick Law Olmsted
American landscape designer, journalist, social critic, and public administrator
Frei Otto
German architect (1925-2015)
Frida Kahlo
Mexican painter (1907–1954)
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Austrian-born visual artist
Gabe Newell
American businessman
Gary Gygax
American game designer and writer
Gentile Bellini
Italian painter
Gentile da Fabriano
Italian painter
Georg Kolbe
German sculptor
George Balabushka
Russian-born billiards cue maker
George Grosz
German artist known for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s
George Herriman
American cartoonist (1880–1944)
George Lilanga
Contemporary artist from Tanzania
Georges Braque
French painter and sculptor
Georges de La Tour
17th-century French painter
Georges Seurat
19th-century French artist
Georges-Eugène Haussmann
French noble and urban planner
Georgia O'Keeffe
American artist
Gerard Sekoto
South African artist and musician (1913-1993)
Gerard van Honthorst
Dutch Golden Age painter
Gerhard Richter
German visual artist
Gerrit Rietveld
Dutch furniture designer and architect
Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola
Italian architect
Giacomo della Porta
Italian architect and sculptor (1532-1602)
Giambologna
16th-17th century Flemish-born sculptor in Italy
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Italian sculptor and architect
Gianni Versace
Italian fashion designer (1946–1997)
Gil Scott-Heron
American musician, poet and author
Gilbert Stuart
American painter
Giorgetto Giugiaro
Italian automobile designer
Giorgio Armani
Italian fashion designer (born 1934)
Giorgio de Chirico
Giorgione
Italian painter
Giotto
Italian painter and architect
Giovanni Battista Guadagnini
Italian luthier
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
18th-century Italian painter
Giovanni Bellini
15th and 16th-century Italian Renaissance painter
Giovanni Pisano
Italian sculptor and architect
Giuliano da Sangallo
Italian artist (1445-1516)
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
16th-century Italian painter of the late Renaissance
Giuseppe Guarneri
Italian luthier
Go Nagai
Japanese manga artist (born 1945)
Gonçalo Mabunda
Artist from Mozambique
Gordon Parks
African American artist
Gottfried Semper
German architect (1803-1879)
Grandma Moses
American painter
Grant Wood
American painter
Gu Kaizhi
Chinese painter and politician (c. 344–406)
Guan Daosheng
Chinese artist and poet (1262-1319)
Guccio Gucci
Italian businessman and fashion designer
Guido Reni
17th-century Bolognese painter
Gunpei Yokoi
Japanese video game designer (1941–1997)
Guo Xi
Song Dynasty painter (1020–1090)
Gustav Klimt
Austrian symbolist painter (1862–1918)
Gustav Vigeland
Norwegian sculptor
Gustave Caillebotte
French painter (1848–1894)
Gustave Courbet
19th-century French painter
Gustave Doré
French illustrator best known for wood-engraving
Gustave Le Gray
French photographer
Gustave Moreau
19th century French Symbolist painter
Gutzon Borglum
American sculptor (1867–1941)
H. G. Peter
American newspaper illustrator and cartoonist
H. R. Giger
Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor, set designer
Hâfiz Osman
Ottoman calligrapher
Hannah Höch
German artist (1889–1979)
Hans Holbein the Younger
German artist and printmaker
Hans Hollein
Austrian architect and designer (1934-2014)
Hans Makart
Austrian academic history painter, designer, and decorator (1840-1884)
Hans Memling
15th century German / Flemish painter
Harry Winston
American jeweller
Harvey Kurtzman
American cartoonist
Hasegawa Tōhaku
Japanese painter (1539-1610)
Hector Guimard
French architect and designer (1867–1942)
Hedwig Gorski
American poet and performance artist
Helen Frankenthaler
American painter
Helmut Newton
German-Australian photographer
Hemiunu
Hereditary Prince
Henri Cartier-Bresson
French photographer
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French painter and illustrator (1864–1901)
Henri Matisse
20th-century French artist
Henri Rousseau
French painter (1844–1910)
Henry E. Steinway
German-American piano maker
Henry Hobson Richardson
American architect
Henry Moore
English artist known for sculpture (1898–1986)
Henry van de Velde
Belgian painter, architect, interior designer, and art theorist
Hergé
Belgian cartoonist
Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau
German landscape artist and author (1785–1871)
Hideaki Anno
Japanese animator, filmmaker, producer, and seiyū (born 1960)
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
Hieronymus Bosch
Dutch painter
Hilma af Klint
Swedish painter and mystic
Hippodamus of Miletus
Greek architect, urban planner and philosopher (498 – 408 BC)
Hironobu Sakaguchi
Japanese video game designer
Hiroshige
Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print artist
Hokusai
Japanese artist
Hon'ami Kōetsu
Japanese painter and calligrapher; (1558-1637)
Honoré Daumier
French artist (1808–1879)
Horiyoshi III
Japanese tattoo artist
Hossein Behzad
Iranian painter (1894–1968)
Hubert de Givenchy
French fashion designer
Hugo Boss (businessman)
German fashion designer and businessman
Hugo Pratt
Italian comic book creator (1927-1995)
I. M. Pei
Chinese-American architect
Iaia
Roman artist
Ictinus
Ancient Athenian architect
Ilya Repin
Russian realist painter (1844–1930)
Imhotep
Egyptian polymath, later deified
Inigo Jones
16th/17th-century English architect
Iris Apfel
American interior designer and fashion icon
Irving Penn
American photographer (1917-2009)
Isidore of Miletus
Byzantine Greek architect
Ivan Aivazovsky
Russian marine painter
Ivan Kramskoi
Russian painter (1837–1887)
Ivan Meštrović
Croatian sculptor and architect
Ivan Shishkin
Russian landscape painter
J. M. W. Turner
British painter (1775–1851)
Jack Kirby
American comic book artist, writer and editor
Jackson Pollock
American painter (1912–1956)
Jacob Lawrence
American painter
Jacob Riis
19th and 20th-century American photographer, journalist and activist
Jacob van Ruisdael
Dutch landscape painter and engraver ( c. 1629 – 1682)
Jacopo della Quercia
Italian artist (1374-1438)
Jacopo Sansovino
Italian artist, 1486-1570
Jacques-Louis David
French painter
James McNeill Whistler
American painter (1834-1903)
James Montgomery Flagg
American artist
James Stirling (architect)
English architect
Jan Brueghel the Elder
Flemish painter (1568–1625)
Jan Matejko
Polish painter (1838–1893)
Jan Tschichold
Graphic designer (1902–1974)
Jan van Eyck
Flemish painter (died 1441)
Jang Seung-eop
Korean painter of the late Choson dynasty (1843-1897)
Jasper Johns
American painter
Jean Arp
German-French sculptor and poet (1886–1966)
Jean Dubuffet
French artist (1901–1985)
Jean Fouquet
French painter (c. 1420 – 1481)
Jean Giraud
French comics author
Jean Nouvel
French architect
Jean Siméon Chardin
18th-century French painter
Jean-Antoine Houdon
18th and 19th-century French artist
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
19th-century French Neoclassical painter
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
19th-century French landscape painter and printmaker
Jean-François Millet
19th-century French painter
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
18th and 19th-century French Rococo painter
Jean-Léon Gérôme
French painter and sculptor (1824–1904)
Jean-Michel Basquiat
American artist (1960–1988)
Jeff Koons
American sculptor and painter
Jenny Holzer
American conceptual artist
Jenny Saville
British painter (born 1970)
Jeong Seon
Painter (1676-1759)
Jim Davis (cartoonist)
American cartoonist and creator of Garfield
Joan Miró
Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist
Joanne Gair
New Zealand artist, born 1958
Joe Shuster
Artist, co-creator of Superman
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
Sculptor and architect from Austria (1656-1723)
Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt
Austrian architect
Johannes Vermeer
17th-century Dutch painter
John Carmack
American computer programmer, engineer, and businessman
John Constable
English painter 1776–1837
John Everett Millais
British painter and illustrator (1829-1896)
John Lasseter
American filmmaker (born 1957)
John Naka
American bonsai artist
John Pule
Niuean artist and writer (born 1962)
John Singer Sargent
American painter (1856–1925)
John Singleton Copley
Anglo-American painter (1738–1815)
John Steuart Curry
American painter
John Tenniel
British illustrator and political cartoonist
John Thomson (photographer)
Scottish photographer, geographer, and traveller
John William Waterhouse
19th and 20th-century English painter
Jony Ive
English designer (born 1967)
Jørn Utzon
Danish architect
Josef Albers
German-American designer, painter, educator and typographer (1888–1976)
Josef Hoffmann
Austrian architect and product designer (1870-1956)
Joseph Barbera
American animator and cartoonist
Joseph Beuys
German visual artist
Joseph Kosuth
American conceptual artist
Joshua Reynolds
English painter (1723–1792)
Jože Plečnik
Slovenian architect
Józef Gosławski (sculptor)
Polish sculptor and medallic artist
Juan Gris
Spanish artist
Juan Luna
Filipino painter, sculptor and political activist (1857-1899)
Judith Leyster
Painter from the Northern Netherlands (1609-1660)
Judy Chicago
American artist
Jules Hardouin-Mansart
French architect and builder (1646–1708)
Julia Margaret Cameron
19th century British photographer
Jusepe de Ribera
Spanish painter
Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād
Persian artist (1450-1535)
Kamal-ol-molk
Iranian artist (1847–1940)
Kanō Eitoku
16th-century Japanese artist
Kanō Masanobu
Japanese painter (1434–1530)
Kara Walker
American contemporary artist
Karl Bryullov
Russian painter (1799-1852)
Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Prussian architect, city planner and painter
Karl Lagerfeld
German fashion designer (1933–2019)
Kat Von D
American tattoo artist, television personality and entrepreneur
Kate Spade
American fashion designer
Kawanabe Kyōsai
Japanese artist
Kazimir Malevich
Russian artist and painter (1879–1935)
Kazuyo Sejima
Japanese architect
Kehinde Wiley
American artist (born 1977)
Keith Haring
American artist and social activist
Ken Kutaragi
Japanese engineering technologist and businessman
Kenzō Tange
Japanese architect (1913–2005)
Kevin Roche
Irish-born American architect
Kim Chŏnghŭi
Korean scholar, calligrapher (1786-1856)
Kim Hong-do
Korean painter
Ladi Kwali
Nigerian potter
Lady Pink
American graffiti artist
Lala Deen Dayal
Indian photographer
László Moholy-Nagy
Hungarian painter and photographer
Latif Karimov
Azerbaijani artist
Lavinia Fontana
Italian painter (1552–1614)
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Dutch-born British painter (1836–1912)
Le Corbusier
Swiss-French architect (1887–1965)
Lee Krasner
American abstract expressionist painter (1908-1984)
Lee Miller
American photographer and photojournalist (1907-1977)
Leo Fender
American inventor and founder of the Fender company
Leochares
Ancient Greek sculptor
Leon Battista Alberti
Italian architect (1404-1472)
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452–1519)
Les Paul
American jazz guitarist, country guitarist, songwriter and inventor
Lewis Hine
American sociologist and photographer
Li Tang (painter)
Chinese painter (1050–1130)
Li Zhensheng (photojournalist)
Chinese photographer
Lizzie Magie
American board game designer (1866–1948)
Lluís Domènech i Montaner
Catalan architect (1850–1923)
Lois Mailou Jones
American artist (1905-1998)
Lonnie Johnson (inventor)
American inventor
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Italian Early Renaissance artist (1378-1455)
Lorna Simpson
American photographer and multimedia artist
Lotte Reiniger
German silhouette animator and film director
Louis Comfort Tiffany
American stained glass and jewelry designer
Louis Kahn
Estonian-American architect
Louis Le Vau
French architect (1612–1670)
Louis Sullivan
American architect
Louis Vuitton (designer)
French fashion designer and businessman
Louise Bourgeois
French American artist
Luca della Robbia
Italian sculptor (1399–1482)
Luca Signorelli
Italian Renaissance painter
Lucas Cranach the Elder
16th-century German Renaissance painter and printmaker
Lucas van Leyden
Artist, painter (1494-1533)
Lucienne Day
British textile designer (1917–2010)
Lúcio Costa
Brazilian architect
Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon
British fashion designer (1863-1935)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
German-American modernist architect
Luis Barragán
Mexican architect (1902-1988)
Lysippos
Greek sculptor of 4th century BC
M. C. Escher
Dutch graphic artist (1898–1972)
M. F. Husain
Indian artist (1915–2011)
Ma Yuan (painter)
Chinese painter from Song Dynasty (1160-1225)
Madeleine Vionnet
French fashion designer
Malick Sidibé
Malian photographer
Man Ray
American artist and photographer
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Mexican photographer
Marc Chagall
Russian and French artist (1887–1985)
Marc Jacobs
American fashion designer (born 1963)
Marcel Breuer
Hungarian-American architect and designer
Marcel Duchamp
French painter and sculptor
Margaret Bourke-White
American photographer
Maria Martinez
Native American potter (ca. 1887–1980)
Marie Tussaud
French artist
Marie Webster
Marina Abramović
Serbian performance artist
Marisol Escobar
Venezuelan-American sculptor
Mark Rothko
Abstract painter (1903–1970)
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer
Mary Blair
American artist, animator, and designer
Mary Cassatt
American painter and printmaker (1844–1926)
Mary Quant
British fashion designer
Masaccio
15th-century Italian Renaissance painter
Masashi Kishimoto
Japanese manga artist, primarily known for his work Naruto
Massimo Vignelli
Italian designer (1931-2014)
Mathew Brady
American photographer (1820s–1896)
Matt Groening
American cartoonist
Matt Stone
American actor, animator, and filmmaker
Matthias Grünewald
German Renaissance painter (c.1470-1528)
Maurice de Vlaminck
French painter (1876–1958)
Mauricio de Sousa
Brazilian cartoonist
Max Ernst
German artist
Michael Thonet
German-Austrian cabinet maker, 1796-1871
Michelangelo
Italian artist and architect (1475–1564)
Michelozzo
Italian architect of the renaissance
Mike Judge
American actor, animator, and filmmaker (born 1962)
Milton Glaser
American graphic designer (1929–2020)
Mimar Sinan
Ottoman architect
Mir Emad Hassani
Iranian calligrapher
Mir Sayyid Ali
Persian Artist
Miuccia Prada
Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur
Morris (cartoonist)
Belgian comics artist
Myron
Athenian sculptor, 5th century BC
Na Hye-sŏk
Korean feminist (1896–1948)
Nadar
French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, and balloonist (1820-1910)
Nakkaş Osman
16th century Ottoman artist
Nan Goldin
American photographer
Nandalal Bose
Indian artist and a pioneer of modern Indian art (1882-1966)
Naoko Takeuchi
Japanese manga artist, known for her work Sailor Moon
Natori Shunsen
Japanese artist
Naum Gabo
Soviet sculptor (1890–1977)
Nicholas Roerich
Russian painter, writer, archaeologist and philosopher (1874–1947)
Nick Park
British animator and filmmaker
Nicola Amati
Italian luthier from Cremona
Nicola Pisano
Italian sculptor and architect
Nicolas Poussin
17th-century French Baroque painter
Niki de Saint Phalle
French plastician, painter and sculptor
Niko Pirosmani
Georgian artist (1862-1918)
Nobuyoshi Araki
Japanese photographer
Nolan Bushnell
American businessman and engineer (born 1943)
Norman Bel Geddes
American theatrical and industrial designer (1893–1958)
Norman Foster
English architect
Norman Lindsay
Australian artist (1879-1969)
Norman Rockwell
20th-century American painter and illustrator
Nusret Çolpan
Turkish painter, architect and miniaturist (1952-2008)
Odilon Redon
French painter (1840–1916)
Ogata Kenzan
Japanese artist (1663-1743)
Ogata Kōrin
Japanese painter, craftsman (1658-1716)
Olafur Eliasson
Danish-Icelandic artist
Ole Kirk Christiansen
Danish businessman and founder of The Lego Group
Orry-Kelly
Australian-American Hollywood costume designer
Orville Gibson
Founder of the Gibson Guitar Company (1856–1918)
Osamu Tezuka
Japanese cartoonist and animator
Oscar de la Renta
Dominican-American fashion designer
Oscar Niemeyer
Brazilian architect (1907–2012)
Osman Waqialla
Sudanese painter and graphic artist
Ossip Zadkine
French sculptor and painter of Russian origin
Otto Dix
German painter and printmaker (1891–1969)
Otto Wagner
Austrian architect (1841-1918)
Ouyang Xun
Confucian scholar and calligrapher (557-641)
Pablo Picasso
Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
Pacita Abad
Ivatan and Philippine-American painter
Paloma Picasso
French-Spanish fashion designer (born 1949)
Paolo Uccello
Italian painter and mathematician (1397–1475)
Paolo Veronese
Italian Renaissance painter (1528–1588)
Parmigianino
Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker (1503–1540)
Parrhasius (painter)
Late 5th/early 4th-century BC Greek painter
Patrick Geddes
British scientist and town planner (1854-1932)
Paul Cézanne
French painter (1839–1906)
Paul Gauguin
French artist (1848–1903)
Paul Klee
Swiss-German painter (1879–1940)
Paul Landowski
French sculptor (1875–1961)
Paul Signac
French painter (1863–1935)
Paul Strand
American photographer
Paula Modersohn-Becker
German expressionist painter (1876–1907)
Peter Behrens
German architect and designer (1868-1940)
Peter Carl Fabergé
Russian jeweller
Peter Parler
German-Czech architect
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish artist and diplomat (1577-1640)
Peter Zumthor
Swiss architect
Peyo
Belgian comics cartoonist and scriptwriter (1928–1992)
Phidias
Greek sculptor, painter and architect
Philip Johnson
American architect (1906–2005)
Piero della Francesca
Italian painter
Piero Manzoni
Italian avant-garde artist
Pierre Balmain
French fashion designer
Pierre Cardin
Italian-French fashion designer (1922–2020)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French painter and sculptor
Piet Mondrian
Dutch painter (1872–1944)
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Flemish Renaissance painter
Pieter Brueghel the Younger
Flemish painter
Pietro Perugino
Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school (1448-1523)
Plautilla Nelli
Painter from Italy (1524-1588)
Polygnotus
5th-century BC Greek painter
Polykleitos
Fifth century BCE Greek sculptor
Praxiteles
4th-century BC Athenian sculptor
Qi Baishi
Chinese painter
Qiu Ying
Ming Dynasty 16th-century Chinese professional painter
Qiu Zhu
Ming dynasty 16th-century Chinese woman painter
Quamrul Hassan
Bangladeshi artist (1921-1988)
Quentin Matsys
Flemish painter in the Early Netherlandish tradition (1466-1530)
R. C. Gorman
Navajo painter and printmaker (1931–2005)
Raja Ravi Varma
Indian painter from Kerala (1848–1906)
Ralph Bakshi
American animator and filmmaker (born 1938)
Ralph H. Baer
German-American inventor and engineer
Ralph Lauren
American fashion designer and executive (born 1939)
Ramkinkar Baij
Indian sculptor and painter (1906–1980)
Raphael
16th-century Italian painter and architect
Ray Johnson
American artist (1927-1995)
Raymond Loewy
French-born American industrial designer
Rem Koolhaas
Dutch architect (born 1944)
Rembrandt
17th-century Dutch painter and printmaker
René Magritte
Belgian painter (1898–1967)
Renzo Piano
Italian architect
Reza Abbasi
Persian painter (1565–1635)
Richard Avedon
American photographer
Richard F. Outcault
American cartoonist
Richard Garfield
American game designer
Richard Meier
American architect
Richard Neutra
Austrian-American architect
Richard Prince
American painter and photographer (born 1949)
Richard Rogers
British architect (born 1933)
Rob Liefeld
American comic book creator
Robert Adam
British neoclassical architect (1728–1792)
Robert Campin
Belgian painter
Robert Capa
Hungarian American photographer
Robert Crumb
American illustrator and cartoonist (b. 1943)
Robert Delaunay
French painter
Robert Doisneau
French photographer
Robert Frank
Swiss-American photographer (1924–2019)
Robert Mapplethorpe
American photographer (1946–1989)
Robert Moses
American urban planner and public official
Robert of Luzarches
French architect
Robert Ripley
American cartoonist
Robert Trent Jones
English-American golf course architect
Robert Venturi
American architect
Roberta Williams
American video game designer (born 1953)
Rodolphe Töpffer
Swiss teacher, author, painter, cartoonist, and caricature artist
Rogier van der Weyden
Early Netherlandish painter (c. 1399 – 1464)
Ron Galella
American photographer and paparazzo
Rosa Bonheur
French painter and sculptor (1822-1899)
Rose Bertin
French milliner
Roy Lichtenstein
American pop artist (1923–1997)
Rufus Porter (painter)
American painter, inventor, and founder of Scientific American magazine (1792-1884)
Rumiko Takahashi
Japanese manga artist
Russell Drysdale
Australian artist
Sailor Jerry
American tattoo artist (1911-1973)
Sally Mann
American photographer
Sally Morgan (artist)
Indigenous Australian artist and writer
Salvador Dalí
Spanish surrealist artist
Sandro Botticelli
Italian Renaissance painter (1445–1510)
Santiago Calatrava
Spanish engineer and architect
Satoshi Tajiri
Japanese video game designer
Saul Bass
American graphic designer
Scopas
4th century BCE Greek sculptor
Sebastiano Serlio
Italian architect and painter (1475-1554)
Sebastião Salgado
Brazilian photographer (1944–2025)
Seen (artist)
American graffiti artist
Senenmut
Egyptian architect (1600-1463)
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
Russian chemist and photographer
Sesshū Tōyō
Japanese artist (1420–1506)
Seth MacFarlane
American actor, writer, and singer
Sharaku
Japanese artist (1770-1825)
Sheikh Hamdullah
Ottoman calligrapher
Shen Zhou
Chinese painter (1427-1509)
Shepard Fairey
American contemporary street artist, graphic designer activist and illustrator (born 1970)
Shibata Zeshin
Japanese painter and lacquerer
Shigeru Ban
Japanese architect
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer
Shinsui Itō
Japanese artist (1898-1972)
Shitao
Chinese painter (1642–1707)
Shōji Hamada
Japanese Mashiko ware Potter (1894-1978)
Sid Meier
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
Sidney Nolan
Australian artist (1917-1992) –
Silver Horn
American painter
Simone Martini
Italian painter from the 14th century (1284–1344)
Sin Yun-bok
Korean painter (1758–1813)
Sofonisba Anguissola
Italian painter (c.1532-1625)
Sol LeWitt
American artist
Stephen Hillenburg
American animator, voice actor, and educator (1961–2018)
Steve Ditko
American comic-book artist
Steve Ritchie (pinball designer)
American pinball designer
Sua Sulu'ape Paulo II
Samoan chief and tattoo artist
Suger
French abbot-statesmen, historian and the influential first patron of Gothic architecture (1080-1151)
Suzanne Valadon
French painter (1865—1938)
Sverre Fehn
Norwegian architect
Tadao Ando
Japanese architect (born 1941)
Takashi Murakami
Japanese artist
Tamara de Lempicka
Polish painter (1894–1980)
Tang Yin
Chinese painter and poet (1470–1524)
Tarsila do Amaral
Brazilian painter, draftswoman and translator
Tawaraya Sōtatsu
Japanese artist
Tex Avery
American animator and director (1908–1980)
Thawan Duchanee
Thai painter (1939-2014)
Theo van Doesburg
Dutch architect, painter, draughtsman and writer (1883–1931)
Théodore Géricault
19th-century French painter
Thomas Andrews
British businessman and shipbuilder
Thomas Chippendale
English furniture designer (1718–1779)
Thomas Cole
19th-century American painter
Thomas Eakins
Late 19th-early 20th century American artist
Thomas Gainsborough
18th-century English portrait and landscape painter
Thomas Hart Benton (painter)
American painter and muralist
Thomas Kinkade
American painter of popular realistic, bucolic, and idyllic subjects
Thomas Nast
American cartoonist (1840–1902)
Thomas Tompion
British clockmaker; (1638-1713)
Thomas Woolner
English poet and sculptor
Tim Schafer
American computer game designer
Tina Modotti
Italian-born photographer and actress, active in the USA and Mexico
Tintoretto
16th-century Italian painter of the Renaissance
Tite Kubo
Japanese manga artist
Titian
Italian painter (c. 1477/88/90–1576)
Tô Ngọc Vân
Vietnamese painter and art critic
Tom Ford
American fashion designer and filmmaker
Tom of Finland
Finnish artist (1920–1991)
Tom Roberts
Australian artist (1856–1931)
Tomohiro Nishikado
Japanese video game developer
Tōru Iwatani
Japanese video game designer, creator of Pac-Man
Toshio Maeda
Japanese manga artist
Toyo Ito
Japanese architect
Toyohara Chikanobu
Japanese artist (1838-1912)
Tracey Emin
English artist
Trey Parker
American actor, animator and filmmaker
Trip Hawkins
American businessman
Tyeb Mehta
Indian artist
Ub Iwerks
American animator and special effects pioneer (1901–1971)
Uche Okeke
Nigerian artist
Uemura Shōen
Japanese artist (1875-1949)
Umberto Boccioni
Italian painter and sculptor (1882–1916)
Utagawa Toyokuni
Japanese artist (1769-1825)
Utamaro
Japanese artist
Valentin Serov
Russian painter (1865–1911)
Valentino (fashion designer)
Italian fashion designer
Vanessa Beecroft
Italian-born performance artist and painter
Vann Nath
Cambodian writer and sculptor (1946-2011)
Vasily Vereshchagin
19th-century Russian painter
Vera Mukhina
Soviet sculptor (1889-1953)
Verner Panton
Danish furniture designer
Victor Horta
Belgian architect and designer
Victor Vasarely
French-Hungarian painter and printmaker (1906–1997)
Viktor Vasnetsov
Russian artist (1848-1926)
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch painter (1853–1890)
Vincenzo Scamozzi
16th century Italian architect
Vito Acconci
American performance artist (1940–2017)
Vitruvius
Roman writer, architect and engineer
Vivienne Westwood
English fashion designer
Vladimir Tatlin
Russian artist
W. Eugene Smith
American photojournalist (1918–1978)
Walker Evans
American photographer and photojournalist (1903-1975)
Walter Burley Griffin
American architect and landscape architect
Walter Gropius
German-American architect (1883–1969)
Wang Shu
Chinese architect (b.1963)
Wang Xizhi
Chinese politician and calligrapher (303-361)
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian painter and art theorist
Weegee
American photographer and photojournalist
Wen Zhengming
Painter (1470-1559)
Whang-od
Filipino tattoo artist (born 1917)
Wilhelm Busch
German humorist, poet, illustrator, and painter (1832-1908)
Will Eisner
American cartoonist (1917–2005)
Will Wright (game designer)
American video game designer and entrepreneur (born 1960)
Willem de Kooning
Dutch-American painter
William Adam (architect)
Scottish architect, mason, and businessman
William Caslon
English typographer and gunsmith
William Eggleston
American photographer
William Etty
English painter (1787–1849)
William Hanna
American animator and cartoonist
William Hogarth
English artist and social critic
William Holman Hunt
Pre-Raphaelite English artist (1827–1910)
William Le Baron Jenney
American architect (1832-1907)
William Morris
Textile designer, novelist, and socialist activist (1834–1896)
William Utermohlen
American artist with Alzheimer's disease who drew self-portraits
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
French academic painter (1825–1905)
Willis H. O'Brien
American special effects technician and animator
Winslow Homer
American landscape painter
Winsor McCay
American cartoonist and animator
Wu Daozi
Chinese artist (c.689–c.759)
Xue Ji
Chinese chancellor (649-713)
Yan Zhenqing
Chinese calligrapher (709-785)
Yayoi Kusama
Japanese artist and writer (born 1929)
Yohji Yamamoto
Japanese fashion designer
Yoko Ono
Japanese artist and activist (born 1933)
Yousuf Karsh
Armenian-Canadian photographer
Yu Shinan
Chinese official and calligrapher (558-638)
Yuji Naka
Japanese video game developer
Yves Klein
French artist (1928–1962)
Yves Saint Laurent (designer)
French fashion designer
Zaha Hadid
Iraqi-British architect
Zainul Abedin
Bangladeshi painter and pioneer of the modern art movement
Zeuxis
5th-century BCE Greek painter
Zhang Leping
Chinese cartoonist (1910-1992)
Zhang Zhi (calligrapher)
Chinese calligrapher
Zhao Mengfu
Chinese painter (1254-1322)
Zhu Yunming
Ming dynasty calligrapher, poet, and scholar-official