Calligrapher

This page lists 857 biographies of calligraphers, covering lives from AD 77 to 2021. Featuring Chen Xiaofeng, Jean-François Bergier and Simone Marshall. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

Yun Tak-yeon

1538 – 1594

Ioane Mesvete

Ibn Muqla

886 – 940

Mu'an

1611 – 1684

Ouyang Zhongshi

1928 – 2020

Shōmu

701 – 756

Thomas Ingmire

b. 1942

David the Rector

b. 1745

Weng Fang-kang

1733 – 1818

Tian Yunzhang

1945 – 2024

Juan de Icíar

1525 – 1575

Yang Shoujing

1839 – 1915

Bao Shichen

1775 – 1855

Fujiwara no Tadamichi

1097 – 1164

Huan Xuan

369 – 404

Sam Fink

1916 – 2011

Wei Shuo

272 – 349

Charles Chi-Jung Chu

1918 – 2008

Arthur Baker

1950 – 2017

Tong Wei

1929 – 2017

Kim Allo

1481 – 1537

Ye Xuanning

1938 – 2016

Mishkín-Qalam

1826 – 1912

Mohammad Ehsai

b. 1939

Wang Qiang

b. 1959

Kim Tŏngnyŏng

1567 – 1596

Yadollah Kaboli Khansari

b. 1949

Abd al-Baqi Tabrizi

1600 – 1629

Michael Sull

b. 1949

Inhyeon

1667 – 1701

Marjan al-Katib al-Islami

Mustafa Halim Özyazıcı

1898 – 1964

Qamar Dagar

Emperor Gao of Southern Qi

427 – 482

Han Sŏkpong

1543 – 1605

Sasaki Gensō

b. 1947

Esmâ Ibret Hanim

1780 – 1900

Nicolaes Boddingius

1605 – 1669

Reza Mafi

1943 – 1982

Yifu Ma

1883 – 1967

Irene Wellington

1904 – 1984

Thomas Tomkins

1743 – 1816

Sokuhi Nyoitsu

1616 – 1671

Yi Bingheogak

1759 – 1824

Zheng Lin

1908 – 1987

Emperor Shunzong of Tang

761 – 806

Li Yong

678 – 747

Baba Shah Esfahani

1500 – 1588

Kim Myeong-hui

1788 – 1857

Charles Pearce

b. 1943

Ismail Amirkhizi

1876 – 1966

Timothy Botts

Mohammed Bahjah Al-Athari

1904 – 1996

Mahmud Celaleddin Efendi

1750 – 1829

Abdul Rahman Hilmi

Mehmed Şevkî Efendi

1829 – 1887

Nuria Garcia Masip

b. 1978

Liu Xinyuan

1848 – 1917

Ioane Berai

Zhao Buzhi

1053 – 1110

Paul Standard

1896 – 1992

Mirza Gholam Reza Esfahani

1830 – 1887

Emperor Saga

786 – 842

Pei Xingjian

619 – 682

Hassan Makaremi

b. 1950

Fang Weiyi

1585 – 1668

Goharshad Ghazvini

1600 – 1628

Mohammad Reza Emami

1600 – 1660

Malek Deylami

1518 – 1562

İsmail Zühdü Efendi

1800 – 1806

Mírzá ʻAbbás Núrí

1789 – 1839

Shingai Tanaka

1942 – 2007

Cao Zhenxiu

1762 – 1822

Thomas Schweicker

1540 – 1602

Xiao Mian

701 – 842

Zhu Yihai, Prince of Lu

1618 – 1654

Susan Loy

b. 1951

ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Amānat Khān

1570 – 1645

Wu Dacheng

1835 – 1902

Sun Xingyan

1753 – 1818

Shu Tong

1905 – 1998

Ruth Raymond

1897 – 1986

Fujiwara no Sukemasa

944 – 998

Wang Dun

266 – 324

Aboutorab Esfahani

1581 – 1662

Kazasker Mustafa İzzet Efendi

1801 – 1876

Jafar Tabrizi

Juichi Yoshikawa

b. 1943

Wang Zhaoyuan

1763 – 1851

Zheng Yuqing

746 – 821

Zhu Changfang

1608 – 1646

Muhammad ibn Ali Rawandi

1155 – 1207

Lai Ji

610 – 662

Mehdi Bayani

1906 – 1968

Jalil Rasouli

b. 1947

Mohammad Mohsen Emami

1705 – 1800

Feng Guifen

1809 – 1874

Zhu Zhiyu

1600 – 1682

Samira Kitman

b. 1984

Wang Jin

700 – 782