Famous Esperantists

Important Esperantists [This list is extracted from wiki ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperantist )and reader feedback. I update occasionally.]

• William Auld, eminent Scottish Esperanto poet and nominee for the Nobel Prize for Literature
• Julio Baghy, poet, member of the Academy of Esperanto and "Dad" of the Esperanto movement.
• Kazimierz Bein, "Kabe", prominent Esperanto activist and writer who suddenly left the Esperanto movement
• Émile Boirac, French writer and first president of the Esperanto language committee (later the Academy of Esperanto)
• Antoni Grabowski, the father of Esperanto poetry
• Boris Kolker, Esperantist scholar and key member of the Academy of Esperanto
• Georges Lagrange, French Esperantist writer
• Frederic Pujulà i Vallés, pioneer of Esperanto in Catalonia
• Sándor Szathmári, leading figure of Esperanto literature
• Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof, inventor of Esperanto.
• Henri Barbusse, French writer, honorary president of the first congress of the Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda.
• Muztar Abbasi, Pakistani Scholar, Patron in chief of PakEsA, translated the Qur'an into Esperanto and many other works.

Politicians

• Kazimierz Badowski, founder of the Communist Party of Poland, promoted Esperanto as part of Trotskyist movement
• Richard Bartholdt, U.S. Representative from Missouri
• Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, one of the architects of the League of Nations, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
• Parley Parker Christensen, Utah and California politician
• Willem Drees, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1948-1958)
• British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who learned Esperanto as a boy scout
• David Blunkett, former British Secretary of State for Education. Mr Blunkett was recently interviewed about Esperanto on the main BBC breakfast show The Today Programme. Mr Blunkett learned Esperanto at school.



Writers

• Don Harlow, Esperantist writer and webmaster of the United States
• William Thomas Stead, well-known philanthropist, journalist and pacifist who was aboard the RMS Titanic when it sank.
• J.R.R. Tolkien
• Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer and philosopher, who claimed he learned how to write Esperanto after two hours of study
• Vladimir Varankin, Russian writer
• Jules Verne, French author, incorporated Esperanto into his last unfinished work

Scientists

• Daniel Bovet, Italian pharmacologist and winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, learned Esperanto as a first language
• Sidney S. Culbert, American linguist and psychologist
• Bertalan Farkas, Hungarian cosmonaut
• Louis Lumière, French inventor of cinema Said: "The use of Esperanto could have one of the happiest consequences in its effects on international relations and the establishment of peace."
• Wilhelm Ostwald, Latvian Nobel laureate for his seminal work in chemical catalysis
• Claude Piron, Esperantist, psychologist, and linguist
• Reinhard Selten, German economist and winner of the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics because of his work on game theory. He has authored two books in Esperanto on that subject.
• Yrjö Väisälä, Finnish astronomer, discovered asteroids 1421 Esperanto and 1462 Zamenhof
• John C. Wells, British phonetician and Esperanto teacher

Others

• Onisaburo Deguchi, one of the chief figures of the Oomoto religious movement in Japan and president of the Universala Homama Asocio ("Universal Human-love Association")
• Alfred Fried, recipient of a Nobel Peace Prize and author of a textbook on Esperanto
• Pope John Paul II, gave several speeches using Esperanto during his career[2][3]
• John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, English classical scholar, gave a historic speech against Esperanto reformists at the World Congress of Esperanto held at Cambridge
• Alexander Nedoshivin, tax specialist, one of the founders of the Esperanto Society at Kaunas, Lithuania
• Seok Joo-myung, Korean ecologist who studied and identified native butterflies of Korea
• William Main Page, Secretary of Edinburgh Esperanto Society, editor and author
• Persone, Esperantist rock trio of Sweden
• László Polgár, Hungarian chess teacher
• Susan Polgar, Hungarian-American chess grandmaster, taught Esperanto by her father László
• William Shatner, a Canadian actor, recording artist, and author [1]
• George Soros, Hungarian-American billionaire and son of Esperantist parents ("Soros", a name selected by his father to avoid persecution, in Esperanto means "will soar")
• Daniel Tammet, British autistic savant, stated Esperanto as one of the ten languages he speaks

[1]Incubus, starring William Shatner (1966). This film is shot entirely in the language Esperanto.
A Cult Classic.
William Shatner stars as Marc, a soldier of pure heart who has just returned home injured from war. He becomes the target of Kia (Allyson Ames), a beautifull female demon, who has become bored with taking the lives of corrupt men. Kia sets out to seduce Marc, but ends up falling in love, angering her sister demon and forcing her to summon the Incubus to wreak revenge.

Language: Esperanto Subtitle: English
http://www.youtube.com/user/gringer345?feature=watch#p/u/7/XtUi1WfA024

Incubus (Esperanto: Inkubo) is a 1966 black-and-white American horror film filmed entirely in the constructed language, Esperanto. Incubus was directed by Leslie Stevens, creator of The Outer Limits. The film's striking cinematography was by Conrad Hall, who went on to win three Academy Awards for his work on the films Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, American Beauty and Road to Perdition.

Incubus was the second feature film primarily using Esperanto ever made. The first, Angoroj (Esperanto for Agonies) appeared in 1964, two years earlier. Angoroj (1964; Esperanto for "Agonies") was the first feature film to be produced entirely in Esperanto. It was directed and produced by Jacques-Louis Mahé, a friend of Raymond Schwartz who, under the pseudonym 'Lorjak', had previously produced a silent Esperanto publicity film before World War II titled Antaŭen! (Onwards!).