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