Emil Cioran - Romanian philosopher, writer and essayist
John Fante - American writer. His main work is Ask the Dust
Hou Hsiao-Hsien - China-born Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, and actor. He directed The Assassin
Edmund Husserl - Austrian-born German philosopher and mathematician, born Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl. He was the founder of Phenomenology, a philosophical movement