Brian Russell De Palma ( born September 11, 1940 ) is an American film director and writer.

* 1947 – Brian Daley, American science-fiction writer ( d. 1996 )

* 1954 – Brian Morton, Scottish writer

Brian Aldiss, another British science fiction writer, has disparagingly labelled some of them as " cosy catastrophes ", especially his novel The Day of the Triffids.

* 1961 – Brian Helgeland, American writer and film director

Brian Moynahan, in his book God's Messenger: William Tyndale, Thomas More and the Writing of the English Bible, takes a similarly critical view of More, as does the American writer Michael Farris.

** Brian Moore, Irish-born writer ( b. 1921 )

* June 15 – Brian Jacques, British writer ( d. 2011 )

** Northern Ireland writer Brian Keenan is released from Lebanon after being held hostage for nearly 5 years.

* September 17 – Brian Andreas, American writer, sculptor, painter, and publisher

** Brian Moore, Northern Irish-born writer ( died 1999 )

* The Angel's Command, a children's adventure novel by British writer Brian Jacques, is set in the year 1628.

While in 2006 Rolling Stone writer Brian Hiatt described Pearl Jam as having " spent much of the past decade deliberately tearing apart their own fame ," he noted the band developed a loyal concert following akin to that of the Grateful Dead.

Based on the original radio scripts, it was adapted by Brian Cooke, the last surviving writer from the series, and directed by Michael Kingsbury.

* Saga ( comics ), comic book series created by writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Fiona Staples, and published monthly by Image Comics

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

Lastly, writer Brian Lynch teamed up with Franco Urru to produce the story arc Spike: Asylum ( 2006-7 ), depicting Spike's stay in a supernatural medical facility.

* Flann O ' Brien, a pen name used by Irish writer Brian O ' Nolan ( 1911 – 1966 )

According to Brian Doherty, writer for Reason magazine, " Malatesta could get tens of thousands, sometimes more than 100, 000, fans to show up whenever arrived in town.

* East 17, British pop boy band, including singer / song writer Brian Harvey.

* Brian Reed, comic book writer

* Brian Lynch ( born 1973 ), writer and director of films including Big Helium Dog.

* Brian Metcalf, film director, producer, writer and artist.

* Brian Hargrove, television writer / producer.

However, ancillary characters are also prominently featured, among them Jerry, the show's head writer for the first and second seasons ; Phil, the head writer beginning in season two ; Beverly, Larry's assistant ; Darlene, Hank's assistant until the fourth season ; Brian, Hank's assistant beginning in the fourth season ; Paula, the show's booker until the fifth season ; and Mary Lou, the assistant booker and then booker starting in the fifth season.

* 1974 – Christian Beranek, American actor, writer, and producer

* 1805 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer ( d. 1875 )

The early Christian apologist writer Arnobius also believed Atlantis once existed but blamed its destruction on pagans.

Blaise Pascal (; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662 ), was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher.

Meanwhile, around 1240, the Coptic Egyptian Christian writer, ' Abul Fada ' il Ibn al -' Assal, wrote the Fetha Negest in Arabic.

Gay Christian writer and actor Peterson Toscano argues that organizations promoting orientation change are a " ruse.

It was the aging countess who told the story of the first Danish Christmas tree to the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen in 1865.

... The Christian writer Yahya ibn Sa ' id reported that everything was razed ' except those parts which were impossible to destroy or would have been too difficult to carry away '.

* 1949 – Bob Hartman, Christian artist, guitarist, writer and songwriter ( Petra )

* 1801 – Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer ( d. 1836 )

The idea of Demiurge was, however, addressed before Plotinus in the works of Christian writer Justin Martyr who built his understanding of the Demiurge on the works of Numenius.

* 1863 – Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German writer ( b. 1813 )

" Philip Melanchthon, a writer during the Reformation, suggested that Romans was caput et summa universae doctrinae christianae (" a summary of all Christian doctrine ").

At least one early Christian writer, Basil of Caesarea ( 329 – 379 ), believed the matter to be theologically irrelevant.

Christian Wolff ( 1679 – 1754 ) was the pioneer as a writer who expounded the Enlightenment to German readers ; he legitimized German as a philosophic language.

(; ) ( 1098 – 17 September 1179 ), also known as Saint Hildegard, and Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath.

The writer Dean Swinford, ( whose concept of irrealism was described at length in the section " Irrealism in Literature "), wrote that the artist Remedios Varos, in her painting The Juggler, " creates a personal allegorical system which relies on the predetermined symbols of Christian and classical iconography.

Ignatius is the earliest known Christian writer to emphasize loyalty to a single bishop in each city ( or diocese ) who is assisted by both presbyters possibly elders and deacons.

Ignatius is claimed to be the first known Christian writer to argue in favor of Christianity's replacement of the Sabbath with the Lord's Day:

Isidore was the first Christian writer to essay the task of compiling for his co-religionists a summa of universal knowledge, in the form of his most important work, the Etymologiae ( taking its title from the method he uncritically used in the transcription of his era's knowledge ).

* 1961 – Eva O, American musician, singer / song writer ( Christian Death, Shadow Project and Super Heroines )

* 1821 – Mary Baker Eddy, American writer, founder of Christian Science ( d. 1910 )

He was a voluminous writer of books on Christian ethics, and of popular histories, which were credited with cultivating a popular interest in history.

* 1813 – Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German writer ( d. 1864 )

Bart D. Ehrman referred to a work by an early anonymous Christian writer ( perhaps Hippolytus, a Christian leader in Rome around 200 AD ) who in a commentary on the Old Testament book Song of Songs, wrote that Jesus first appeared to the women at the tomb.