Pierre Corneille was a French playwright and poet, renowned for his tragedies that established him as one of the pioneers of French classical theatre.
Ludovico Ariosto, an Italian poet of the Renaissance, is renowned for his influential epic poem, Orlando Furioso, which significantly impacted European literature.
Shantideva was an 8th-century Indian Buddhist scholar and philosopher, renowned for his profound writings on bodhisattva practice and compassion.