* 1953 – Eric Bogosian, American actor and writer

* 1974 – Eric Kripke, American writer, director, and producer

The ambiguity in his belief in religion mirrored the dichotomies between his public and private lives: Stephen Ingle wrote that it was as if the writer George Orwell " vaunted " his atheism while Eric Blair the individual retained " a deeply ingrained religiosity ".

People primarily known for their contributions to the consciousness of the programmer subculture of hackers include Richard Stallman, the founder of the free software movement and the GNU project, president of the Free Software Foundation and author of the famous Emacs text editor as well as the GNU Compiler Collection ( GCC ), and Eric S. Raymond, one of the founders of the Open Source Initiative and writer of the famous text The Cathedral and the Bazaar and many other essays, maintainer of the Jargon File ( which was previously maintained by Guy L. Steele, Jr .).

* Eric Rücker Eddison ( The Worm Ouroboros and The Zimiamvian Trilogy ) was a pre-Tolkien high fantasy writer.

* 2012 – Eric Sykes, English actor, writer, and director ( b. 1923 )

In June 2009, Loach, Paul Laverty ( writer ) and Rebecca O ' Brien ( producer ) pulled their film Looking For Eric from the Melbourne International Film Festival, where the Israeli Embassy is a sponsor, after the festival declined the withdraw their sponsorship.

* Eric Walker: Former aerospace engineer turned baseball writer, who played an important part in the early acceptance of sabermetrics within the Oakland Athletics organization.

** Eric Idle, English actor, writer, and composer

* October 22 – Eric Ambler, British writer ( b. 1909 )

* July 7 – Eric Jerome Dickey, American writer

* August 6 – Christian Eric Fahlcrantz, Swedish writer ( b. 1790 )

** Eric Gill, British sculptor and writer ( b. 1882 )

* November 2 – Eric Wall, American writer and political activist

* February 22 – Eric Gill, British sculptor and writer ( d. 1940 )

Among the other Broadway plays he directed were " Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ", " Sweet Bird of Youth ", " The Dark at the Top of the Stairs " and " Tea and Sympathy ", This led some, such as theater critic Eric Bentley, to write that " the work of Elia Kazan means more to the American theater than that of any current writer.

He co-wrote Beyond Our Ken for two seasons ( 1958 – 1959 ) with Eric Merriman for BBC Radio before leaving after a disagreement with his fellow writer.

He is the second cousin once removed of the notable television writer, director, and producer Eric Kripke.

It was founded in autumn 1999 by science fiction writer Eric Flint and publisher Jim Baen to determine whether the availability of books free of charge on the Internet encourages or discourages the sale of their paper books.

Eric Idle ( born 29 March 1943 ) is an English comedian, actor, author, singer, writer and comedic composer.

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.

Eric Sykes CBE ( 4 May 1923 – 4 July 2012 ) was an English radio, television and film writer, actor and director whose performing career spanned more than 50 years.

At the turn of the decade Eric Sykes and his old friend and colleague Hattie Jacques co-starred in a new 30-minute BBC TV sitcom, Sykes and A ..., which Sykes created in collaboration with writer Johnny Speight, who had worked with him earlier in the 1950s on the two Tony Hancock series for ITV.

The writer George Orwell ( then known as Eric Blair ) spent time as a teenager and in his thirties in Southwold, living at his parents ' home.

Of the musical themes suggested as the Enigma, one of the most frequently proposed is the Scottish song " Auld Lang Syne ", which has been favoured by Elgar's friend Richard Powell ( husband of Dorabella ), the musicologist Roger Fiske, and the writer Eric Sams.

At St. Cyprian's, Blair first met Cyril Connolly, who became a noted writer and, as the editor of Horizon, published many of Orwell's essays.

* Emily Newell Blair, was an American writer, suffragist, national Democratic Party political leader, a founder of the League of Women Voters and feminist.

Blair subsequently accompanied Beebe on several of his expeditions, and as a writer herself, frequently assisted Beebe with his own writing.

Blair also acknowledged that a person must have virtue and personal character, as well as knowledge of literature to be an effective speaker or writer.

Historian and writer Paul Johnson famously quoted Thatcher as saying before the 1997 election that Britain had " nothing to fear " from a Blair ministry.

One writer, Skippy Blair, noted in 1994 that, " At this writing, Country has become the dance of the decade.

Sonia Mary Brownell ( 25 August 1918 – 11 December 1980 ) was the second and last wife of writer George Orwell, whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair.

Bragg's second wife, Catherine Mary Haste, whom he married in 1973, is also a television producer and writer, having, among other things, edited the 2007 memoir of Clarissa Eden, widow of Sir Anthony Eden, and collaborated with Cherie Booth, wife of Tony Blair, on a 2004 book about the wives of British Prime Ministers.

In November 1999 Sir Richard Body put forward an Early Day Motion in support of the writer Robert Henderson, who believed that his mail and telephone line had been interfered with by the security services after he had written allegedly threatening letters to Tony Blair, his wife Cherie, and various Labour MPs.

* John Blair Moore ( born 1948 ), American comic book writer / artist best known for Invaders from Home

Among his contemporaries at Eton were Eric Blair ( the writer George Orwell ), Cyril Connolly, Robert Byron, Alec Douglas-Home, Ian Fleming, Brian Howard, Oliver Messel, Anthony Powell, Henry Yorke ( the novelist Henry Green ).

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Roxon became close friends with critic and rock manager Danny Fields, Village Voice journalist Blair Sabol, musician and writer Lenny Kaye ( later the guitarist in Patti Smith's band and compiler of the original Nuggets LP ), photographers Linda McCartney and Leee Black Childers and Australian academic, author and feminist Germaine Greer.

He is also the writer of more than 70 Radio 4 plays and series including, The House for Timothy West, Julian Glover and Isla Blair, Colvil & Soames for Dudley Sutton and Christopher Benjamin, Our Brave Boys for Martin Jarvis and Fiona Shaw and the Los Angeles production of his The Trial of Walter Ralegh which Rosalind Ayres produced with Michael York in the title role.

* TCM Remembers 2009: Edmund Purdom, Natasha Richardson, Jody McCrea, Ricardo Montalbán, Al Martino, director Robert Mulligan, director Howard Zieff, Pamela Blake, Farrah Fawcett, producer Larry Gelbart, producer Charles H. Schneer, Edward Woodward, Jennifer Jones, Sam Bottoms, Patrick Swayze, Olga San Juan, Paul Burke, screenwriter Horton Foote, Sydney Chaplin, Susanna Foster, director Ken Annakin, cinematographer Jack Cardiff, Beverly Roberts, Kathleen Byron, Dorothy Coonan, producer Daniel Melnick, Jane Bryan, Ron Silver, David Carradine, Richard Todd, Gale Storm, Pat Hingle, Eartha Kitt, Lou Jacobi, Bea Arthur, composer Maurice Jarre, Dom DeLuise, Henry Gibson, screenwriter Budd Schulberg, Claude Berri, writer Dominick Dunne, Betsy Blair, James Whitmore, Joseph Wiseman, Patrick McGoohan, director John Hughes and Karl Malden.

He also met a writer Blair Niles and sold her one of his manuscripts.

Robert Henderson ( born 1947 ) is a British writer who has caused public controversy with his views on racial issues and his letters to the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Joni Mitchell later spoke to writer Iain Blair about the recording experience: " I know it sounds ridiculous, but I was literally starving when we did the session ' cause my yoga teacher had sent me to a psychic dietician who, while rubbing her chin and swinging her arm around in a circle, had diagnosed a lot of food allergies.

" Founded by novelist Oakley Hall and writer Blair Fuller, it is held each summer in Olympic Valley, California.

Blair Erickson, a writer of a treatment for Alone in the Dark, has written a critical account of his experience working with Boll, in which Erickson alleges that Boll stole ideas from prior movies and wanted to add elements to the story that were not true to the tone of the source material.

Jon Blair ( born 1950 ) is a South African born writer, film producer and director of documentary films, drama and comedy who has lived in England and the United States ever since he was drafted into the South African army in the late 1960s.

Winters was born in New York City, and has three younger siblings: Bradford ( a writer ), Scott William ( who portrayed Ryan O ' Reily's brother Cyril on Oz ) and their sister Blair.

Canadian writer Blair Frazer also drowned in the park on the Petawawa River's Rollaway Rapids in May 1968.