1. Wole Soyinka
2. William Shakespeare
3. Anton Chekhov
4. Brendan Behan
5. Günter Grass
6. George Bernard Shaw
7. James Baldwin
8. Noël Coward
9. Arthur Miller
10. Maxim Gorky
11. Edward Albee
12. Neil Simon
13. Tennessee Williams- 14. Eugene O'Neill
- 15. Samuel Beckett
- 16. Langston Hughes
- 17. Henrik Ibsen
- 18. Ben Jonson
- 19. Frank Wedekind
- 20. Tom Stoppard
- 21. Moss Hart
- 22. Clyde Fitch
- 23. Thornton Wilder
- 24. Olympe de Gouges
- 25. Jean Racine
- 26. Maxwell Anderson
- 27. Peter Shaffer
- 28. Euripides
- 29. Dion Boucicault
- 30. Marc Connelly
- 31. August Wilson
- 32. Elmer Rice
- 33. Lillian Hellman
- 34. Harold Pinter
- 35. Thomas Kyd
- 36. Jean Genet
- 37. Melvin Van Peebles
- 38. John Van Druten
- 39. David Mamet
- 40. Terence Rattigan
