Gil Vicente é considerado o primeiro grande dramaturgo português, além de poeta de renome. Enquanto homem de teatro, parece ter também desempenhado as tarefas de músico, ator e encenador. É considerado o pai do teatro português, ou mesmo do teatro ibérico, já que também escreveu em castelhano — partilhando a paternidade da dramaturgia espanhola com Juan del Encina.
Gil Vicente, called the Trobadour, was a Portuguese playwright and poet who acted in and directed his own plays. Considered the chief dramatist of Portugal he is sometimes called the "Portuguese Plautus," often referred to as the "Father of Portuguese drama" and as one of Western literature's greatest playwrights. Also noted as a lyric poet, Vicente worked in Spanish as much as he worked in Portuguese and is thus, with Juan del Encina, considered joint-father of Spanish drama.
Gilbert Frankau was a popular British novelist. He was known also for verse, including a number of verse novels, and short stories.
He was born in London into a Jewish family but was baptised as an Anglican at the age of 13. After education at Eton College, he went into the family cigar business and became managing director on his twenty-first birthday, his father, Arthur Frankau, having died in November 1904.
A few months before his death, at sixty-eight, from lung cancer, he converted to Roman Catholicism.
George Gilbert Aimé Murray was an Australian-born British classical scholar and public intellectual, with connections in many spheres. He was an outstanding scholar of the language and culture of Ancient Greece, perhaps the leading authority in the first half of the twentieth century. He is the basis for the character of Adolphus Cusins in his friend George Bernard Shaw's play Major Barbara, and also appears as the chorus figure in Tony Harrison's play Fram.
Gilbert White was a "parson-naturalist", a pioneering English naturalist, ecologist, and ornithologist. He is best known for his Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne.
