Everything leads us to believe that there is a certain state of mind from which life and death, the real and the imaginary, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, height and depth are no longer perceived as contradictory." Andre Breton, Second Manifesto of Surrealism (1929) ==A - D== ==E - J== ==K - N== ==O - R== ==S - Z== == A - D == Sarane Alexandrian - French -Philosopher - Art historian Ferdinand Alquie - French - Philosopher Guillaume Apollinaire - French - Poet - art critic Louis Aragon - French - Poet - and editor Celine Arnauld - Romanian - Poet - Female Antonin Artaud - French - Actor - Poet Hugo Ball - German - Poet and one of the founders of the Dada movement. Djuna Barnes - American - Female Jacques Baron - French - Poet SamuelBeckett - Irish - playwright Jean-Louis Bedouin - French - Poet Max Bletcher? - Romanian Monny De Boully - Serbian Joe Bousquet - French - Poet Pierre Brasseur - French - Actor Gabriella Buffet - French - avant-garde musician - Female Roger Caillois - French - sociologist and intellectual Leonora Carrington - English born, Mexican - Painter - Sculptor - Female Jean Carrive - French - Translator Blaise Cendrars - French Jean-Francois Chabrun - French - Poet Elisa Claro - Chilean - Painter - Female Rene Crevel - French Ithell Colquhoun - British - Painter - playwright and Poet - Female Nancy Cunard - English - Female heiress, political activist, publisher and Muse Adrien Dax - French - Painter - Graphic Artist Lise Deharme - French - Poet - Female Joseph Delteil - French Paul Dermee - Belgian - Poet Robert Desnos - French - Poet Christian Dotremont - Belgian - Painter Pierre Drieu La Rochelle - French - fascist Marcel Duhamel - French - actor - Screen Writer Germaine Dulac - French - Film Maker - Female Renee Dunan - French - critic - poet - Female == E - J == Tony Earnshaw - English - Painter - box maker Ikbal El Alaily - Egyptian - Poet - Writer - Female Paul Eluard - French - Writer - Poet Andreas Embirikos - Greek - Poet Leila Ferraz - Brazilian - Poet - Photographer - Female Leonor Fini - Italian -Painter - Female Theodor Fraenkel - French David Gascoyne - English - Poet Renee Gauthier - French - "sleeper" - Female Jean Genbach - French Camille Goemans - Belgian - Art Patron Eugenio Granell - Spanish - Painter - Poet Tom Gutt - Belgian - Collagist and object-maker Irene Hamoir - Belgian - Poet - Female Richard Huelsenbeck - German - Poet and Dada drummer Edouard Jaguer - French - Poet Marcel Jean - French - Painter ==K - N== Simone Kahn - French - thinker and player of Surrealist Games - Female Nelly Kaplan - Argentine French - Film Maker - Female Annie Le Brun - French - Poet - Female Robert Lebel - [[French] - art expert Marcel Lecomte - Belgian - Poet Michel Leiris - French - Poet - Ethnographer Denise Levy - French - Translator - Female Georges Limbour - French - Poet Mary Low - English - Poet - Female Pierre Mabille - French - surgeon and sociologist. Conroy Maddox - English - Collagist - Painter Albert Marencin - Czech - Writer - Poet - Collagist Marcel Marien - Belgian - Poet - Photographer - Collagist - Film Maker and maker of objects Walter Mehring - German George Melly - English - Jazz Musician Henri Michaux - Belgian/French - Poet - Painter Nora Mitrani - Bulgarian - Poet - Female Jules Monnerot - French Max Morise - French - Painter - Actor Pierre Naville - French - Sociologist Vitezlav Nezval - Czech Paul Nouge - Belgian - Poet - Photographer and philosopher ==O - R== Wolfgang Paalen - Austrian - Mexican - Painter Clemen Pansaers? - Belgian Jean Paulhan - French - literary critic and publisher Aldo Pellegrini - Argentinian Benjamin Peret - French - Poet - Essayist Bjerke Petersen - Danish - Painter Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues - French Raymond Queneau - French - Poet Alice Rahon- French - Poet - Painter - Female RegineRaufast - French - Female Toni del Renzio - Russian - English - Painter - art historian Edith Rimmington - English - Painter - Photographer - Female Jeanne Roques - French - Actor - Film Maker - Female ==S - Z== Georges Sadoul - French - film historian Alberto Savinio - Italian -Painter - Musician Gerard De Sede - French Walter Serner - Czech Max Servais - Belgian - Collagist - illustrator Philippe Soupault - French - Poet Gertrude Stein - American - Patron Hugh Sykes Davies - English - Poet Dorothea Tanning - American - Painter - Sculptor - Female - printmaker, set and costume designer Remedios Varo - Spanish - Painter - Female Pierre Unik - French - Poet - Journalist Nanos Valaoritis - Greek - Poet Albert Valentin - Belgian Film Maker - Writer Marianne van Hirtum - Belgian - Poet - Female Melchior Vischer - Czech - Theatre Roger Vitrac - French - playwright - poet Patrick Waldberg - American - Art historian Rosemond Wilms? French - Russian - Model - Journalist Ramses Younan - Egyptian- [[Painter] Unica Zurn - German - Painter - Femail? More on Surrealist Writers