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.
- 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
- John Emory Powers (1837â€"1919), the world's first full-time copywriter
- Ernie Schenck, contributing editor for Communication Arts magazine
- Dave Trott, founder of GGT, Bainsfair Sharkey Trott; 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 â€" 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.
- Sherwood Anderson, author
- Helen Gurley Brown, former publisher and editor (Cosmopolitan)
- Augusten Burroughs, author
- 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
- Dan Kennedy, author
- 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
- Dorothy L. Sayers, author
- Indra Sinha, author
- Chrissie Swan, TV and radio presenter
- Kurt Vonnegut, author
- Fay Weldon, author
See also
- Category:Copywriters
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