List of copywriters

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This is a list of well-known advertising copywriters who founded a major multinational agency, have been inducted into an advertising hall of fame, have been recognized with a lifetime achievement award, or have considerable influence in the copywriting world.

John Emory Powers (1837–1919), the world's first full-time copywriter

David Abbott, founder of Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO

William Bernbach, founder of DDB Worldwide

Drayton Bird, founder of THB&W

Leo Burnett, founder of Leo Burnett Worldwide

Fairfax M. Cone, founder of Foote Cone & Belding

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon, 1982 Advertising Hall of Fame inductee

Jo Foxworth, key writer at McCann Erickson

Stan Freberg (born 1926)

David Ogilvy, founder of Ogilvy & Mather

Dave Trott Founder of GGT, Bainsfair Sharkey Trott and former Chairman and Executive Creative Director of The Gate London, copywriter, blogger and author

Former copywriters

Many creative people spend time early in their careers working as advertising copywriters. This is a list of such people – specifically, people who worked as copywriters before achieving fame in a non-advertising career. The names are followed by the careers in which they are famous.

Dan Kennedy, author

Sherwood Anderson, author

Augusten Burroughs, author

Helen Gurley Brown, former publisher and editor (Cosmopolitan)

Peter Carey, author

Bryce Courtenay, author

Don DeLillo, author

Kenny Everett, comedian and radio DJ

F. Scott Fitzgerald, author

Kitty Flanagan, comedian

Terry Gilliam, director and animator

Alec Guinness, actor

Dashiell Hammett, author

Hugh Hefner, publisher (Playboy)

Joseph Heller, author

Russell Hoban, author

John Hughes, director, writer

Thom Jones, author

Tim Kazurinsky, comedian

Elmore Leonard, author

Rick Moranis, actor

Ogden Nash, poet

Bob Newhart, comedian and actor

Alan Parker, director

Steven Pressfield, author

Franc Roddam, director

Salman Rushdie, author

John Safran, documentarian and broadcaster

Indra Sinha, author

Dorothy L. Sayers, author

Chrissie Swan, TV and radio presenter

Fay Weldon, author

References

List of copywriters Wikipedia

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