Arthur C. Clarke
English science-fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
Ta-Nehisi Coates
American author and journalist
Richard Cobb
British historian and essayist, and professor at the University of Oxford
J. M. Coetzee
South African-Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature
Colette
French author and woman of letters
Billy Collins
American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York . Collins was recognized as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library and selected as the New York State Poet for 2004 through 2006. In 2016, Collins was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Michael Collins
American astronaut who flew the Apollo 11 command module Columbia around the Moon in 1969 while his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, made the first crewed landing on the surface.
Suzanne Collins
American television writer and author
Wilkie Collins
English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White , and for The Moonstone , which has been proposed as the first modern English detective novel
John Stewart Collis
Irish biographer, rural author, and pioneer of the ecology movement