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Originally posted on October 6, 2021 @ 2:12 pm

By Naeem Noor | Updated on April 14, 2024

Reviewed by Rittika

List of national poets of over 200 countries in alphabetical order.

• 
  Abkhazia
  Linguist Dmitry Gulia
• 
  Afghanistan
  Khushal Khattak
• 
  Åland Islands
  Not Declared
• 
  Albania
  Naim Frasheri
• 
  Algeria
  Moufdi Zakaria
• 
  American Samoa
  Not Declared
• 
  Andorra
  Albert Salvadó
• 
  Angola
  Agostinho Neto
• 
  Anguilla
  Not Declared
• 
  Antigua and Barbuda
  Not Declared
• 
  Argentina
  José Hernández
• 
  Armenia
  Hovhannes Tumanyan
• 
  Australia
  Adam Lindsay Gordon
• 
  Austria
  Franz Grillparzer, Peter Rosegger, Johann Nepomuk Nestroy
• 
  Azerbaijan
  Nizami Ganjavi
• 
  Bahamas
  Marion Bethel
• 
  Bahrain
  Ali al-Sharqawi
• 
  Bangladesh
  Kazi Nazrul Islam
• 
  Barbados
  Edward Kamau Brathwaite
• 
  Belarus
  Adam Mickiewicz
• 
  Belgium
  Emile Verhaeren
• 
  Belize
  Not Declared
• 
  Benin
  Not Declared
• 
  Bermuda
  Thomas Moore
• 
  Bhutan
  Not Declared
• 
  Bolivia
  Luciano Durán Böger
• 
  Bonaire
  Not Declared
• 
  Bosnia and Herzegovina
  Izet Sarajlić
• 
  Botswana
  Not Declared
• 
  Brazil
  Gonçalves Dias, Olavo Bilac, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Machado de Assis
• 
  British Indian Ocean Territory
  Not Declared
• 
  British Virgin Islands
  Not Declared
• 
  Brunei
  Sir Muda Omar Ali Saifuddin
• 
  Bulgaria
  Hristo Botev, Ivan Vazov
• 
  Burkina Faso
  Not Declared
• 
  Burundi
  Not Declared
• 
  Cambodia
  Preah Botumthera Som, Krom Ngoy, Chuon Nath
• 
  Cameroon
  Not Declared
• 
  Canada
  Pauline Johnson, Émile Nelligan, Octave Crémazie, John McCrae, Margaret Atwood
• 
  Cape Verde
  Not Declared
• 
  Cayman Islands
  Not Declared
• 
  Central African Republic
  Not Declared
• 
  Chad
  Not Declared
• 
  Chile
  Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral
• 
  China
  Du Fu, Li Bai, Lu Xun
• 
  Christmas Island
  Not Declared
• 
  Cocos (Keeling) Islands
  Not Declared
• 
  Colombia
  Rafael Pombo, José Asunción Silva
• 
  Comoros
  Not Declared
• 
  Republic of Congo
  Not Declared
• 
  Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Not Declared
• 
  Cook Islands
  Not Declared
• 
  Costa Rica
  Aquileo J. Echeverría, Carmen Lyra
• 
  Croatia
  Marko Marulić, Miroslav Krleža
• 
  Cuba
  José Martí, Lezama Lima, Nicolás Guillén
• 
  Curaçao
  Frank Martinus Arion
• 
  Cyprus
  Vasilis Michaelides
• 
  Czech Republic
  Karel Hynek Mácha, Božena Němcová, Jan Neruda
• 
  Dagestan
  Rasul Gamzatov
• 
  Denmark
  Adam Oehlenschläger, Søren Kierkegaard
• 
  Djibouti
  Not Declared
• 
  Dominica
  Not Declared
• 
  Dominican Republic
  Pedro Mir
• 
  East Timor (Timor-Leste)
  Not Declared
• 
  Ecuador
  José Joaquín de Olmedo, Jorge Enrique Adoum
• 
  Egypt
  Ahmed Shawqi
• 
  El Salvador
  Roque Antonio Dalton García
• 
  England
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• 
  Equatorial Guinea
  Not Declared
• 
  Eritrea
  Not Declared
• 
  Estonia
  Lydia Koidula, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald
• 
  Eswatini (Swaziland)
  Nontobeko 'Ntobie' Ndzabukelwako
• 
  Ethiopia
  Gibreab Teferi, Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin
• 
  Faroe Islands
  Nólsoyar Páll
• 
  Fiji
  Not Declared
• 
  Finland
  Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Elias Lönnrot
• 
  Flanders
  Emile Verhaeren
• 
  France
  Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire
• 
  French Guiana
  Not Declared
• 
  French Polynesia
  Not Declared
• 
  Gabon
  Not Declared
• 
  The Gambia
  Not Declared
• 
  Georgia
  Shota Rustaveli
• 
  Germany
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller
• 
  Ghana
  Atukwei John Okai
• 
  Gibraltar
  Not Declared
• 
  Greece
  Homer, Dionysios Solomos
• 
  Greenland
  Not Declared
• 
  Grenada
  Not Declared
• 
  Guam
  Not Declared
• 
  Guatemala
  Rafael Landívar
• 
  Guernsey
  Not Declared
• 
  Guinea
  Not Declared
• 
  Guinea-Bissau
  Not Declared
• 
  Guyana
  Not Declared
• 
  Haiti
  Jacques Roumain
• 
  Honduras
  Not Declared
• 
  Hong Kong
  Not Declared
• 
  Hungary
  Sándor Petőfi, János Arany
• 
  Iceland
  Jónas Hallgrímsson, Hallgrímur Pétursson, Halldór Laxness
• 
  India
  Valmiki, Jhaverchand Meghani,Vedavyasa, Kalidasa, Rabindranath Tagore
• 
  Indonesia
  Chairil Anwar
• 
  Iran
  Simin Behbahani, Ferdowsi, Rumi, Hafez, Attar, Abu Sa'eed, Sanai, Rudaki, Nezami Ganjavi, Saadi, Omar Khayyám
• 
  Iraq
  Maarouf Al Rasafi
• 
  Ireland
  Thomas Moore, William Butler Yeats, Seamus Heaney
• 
  Isle of Man
  Thomas Edward Brown
• 
  Italy
  Dante Alighieri, Giosuè Carducci, Giacomo Leopardi, Ugo Foscolo, Gabriele D'Annunzio
• 
  Côte d’Ivoire
  Not Declared
• 
  Jamaica
  Claude McKay
• 
  Japan
  Koizumi Yakumo, Murasaki Shikibu, Matsuo Bashō, Kobayashi Issa, Ishikawa Takuboku, Tanikawa Shuntaro
• 
  Jersey
  Not Declared
• 
  Jordan
  Mustafa Wahbi al-Tal
• 
  Kazakhstan
  Abai Qunanbaiuly
• 
  Kenya
  Not Declared
• 
  Kiribati
  Teresia Teaiwa
• 
  North Korea
  Cho Ki-chon
• 
  South Korea
  Yun Dongju, Han Yong-un, Park Mok-wol, Jeong Cheol
• 
  Kosovo
  Din Mehmeti, Ali Podrimja
• 
  Kuwait
  Not Declared
• 
  Kyrgyzstan
  Toktogul Satylganov
• 
  Laos
  Not Declared
• 
  Latvia
  Not Declared
• 
  Lebanon
  Kahlil Gibran, Said Akl
• 
  Lesotho
  Not Declared
• 
  Liberia
  Not Declared
• 
  Libya
  Not Declared
• 
  Liechtenstein
  Peter Kaiser
• 
  Lithuania
  Kristijonas Donelaitis, Maironis
• 
  Luxembourg
  Edmond de la Fontaine, Michel Rodange, and Michel Lentz
• 
  Macau
  Not Declared
• 
  North Macedonia
  Kočo Racin, Georgi Pulevski and Kole Nedelkovski
• 
  Madagascar
  Jean Verdi Salomon Razakandrainy
• 
  Malawi
  Not Declared
• 
  Malaysia
  Usman Awang
• 
  Maldives
  Not Declared
• 
  Mali
  Fily Dabo Sissoko
• 
  Malta
  Dun Karm Psaila
• 
  Marshall Islands
  Not Declared
• 
  Mauritania
  Not Declared
• 
  Mauritius
  Not Declared
• 
  Mexico
  Ramón López Velarde, Octavio Paz
• 
  Micronesia
  Not Declared
• 
  Moldova
  Grigore Vieru
• 
  Monaco
  Louis Notari
• 
  Mongolia
  Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj, Byambyn Rinchen, Hadaa Sendoo
• 
  Montenegro
  Petar II Petrović-Njegoš
• 
  Montserrat
  Not Declared
• 
  Morocco
  Mohammed Awzal
• 
  Mozambique
  Not Declared
• 
  Myanmar (Burma)
  Min Thu Wun
• 
  Namibia
  Not Declared
• 
  Nauru
  Not Declared
• 
  Nepal
  Madhav Prasad Ghimire
• 
  Netherlands
  Joost van den Vondel and Jacob Cats
• 
  New Caledonia
  Not Declared
• 
  New Zealand
  James K. Baxter and Allen Curnow
• 
  Nicaragua
  Not Declared
• 
  Niger
  Not Declared
• 
  Nigeria
  Chinua Achebe
• 
  Niue
  Not Declared
• 
  Norfolk Island
  Not Declared
• 
  Northern Ireland
  Sinéad Morrissey
• 
  Norway
  Henrik Wergeland
• 
  Oman
  Not Declared
• 
  Pakistan
  Allama Muhammad Iqbal
• 
  Palau
  Not Declared
• 
  Palestine
  Mahmoud Darwish
• 
  Panama
  Ricardo Miró
• 
  Papua New Guinea
  Not Declared
• 
  Paraguay
  Not Declared
• 
  Peru
  César Vallejo
• 
  Philippines
  Francisco Balagtas
• 
  Pitcairn Islands
  Not Declared
• 
  Poland
  Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki, Zygmunt Krasiński, Jan Kochanowski, Cyprian Norwid
• 
  Portugal
  Luís de Camões, Fernando Pessoa
• 
  Puerto Rico
  Manuel Fernández Juncos
• 
  Qatar
  Not Declared
• 
  Romania
  Mihai Eminescu
• 
  Russia
  Alexander Pushkin, Sergei Yesenin, Mikhail Lermontov, Gavrila Derzhavin, Nikolay Nekrasov, Vladimir Vysotsky
• 
  Rwanda
  Not Declared
• 
  Saba
  Not Declared
• 
  Saint Barthélemy
  Not Declared
• 
  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  Not Declared
• 
  Samoa
  Not Declared
• 
  San Marino
  Pio Chiaruzzi
• 
  Sao Tome and Principe
  Not Declared
• 
  Saudi Arabia
  Not Declared
• 
  Scotland
  Robert Burns
• 
  Senegal
  Léopold Sédar Senghor
• 
  Serbia
  Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Vladislav Petković Dis, Oskar Davičo, Desanka Maksimović
• 
  Seychelles
  Not Declared
• 
  Sierra Leone
  Not Declared
• 
  Singapore
  Edwin Thumboo
• 
  Sint Maarten
  Lasana M. Sekou
• 
  Slovakia
  Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav
• 
  Slovenia
  France Prešeren
• 
  Solomon Islands
  Not Declared
• 
  Somalia
  Hadrawi
• 
  Somaliland
  Not Declared
• 
  South Africa
  Mazisi Kunene
• 
  South Sudan
  Not Declared
• 
  Spain
  Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Federico García Lorca
• 
  Sri Lanka
  Ananda Samarakoon
• 
  Saint Kitts and Nevis
  Not Declared
• 
  Saint Lucia
  Not Declared
• 
  Sudan
  Gely Abdel Rahman
• 
  Suriname
  Trefossa
• 
  Svalbard
  Not Declared
• 
  Sweden
  Carl Michael Bellman, Gustaf Fröding, Verner von Heidenstam, Esaias Tegnér
• 
  Switzerland
  Gottfried Keller and Carl Spitteler
• 
  Syria
  Nizar Qabbani
• 
  Taiwan
  Loa Ho, Du Fu, Li Bai, Lu Xun
• 
  Tajikistan
  Rudaki, Ferdowsi, Saadi, Molavi, Nasir Khusraw, Sadriddin Ayni, Gulnazar Keldi
• 
  National symbols of tanzania
  Shaaban bin Robert
• 
  Tatarstan
  Abdullah Tuqay
• 
  Thailand
  Thammathibet, Phra Phutthaloetla Naphalai, Sunthorn Phu, Vajiravudh, Thommayanti
• 
  Togo
  Not Declared
• 
  Tokelau
  Not Declared
• 
  Tonga
  Not Declared
• 
  Trinidad and Tobago
  Not Declared
• 
  Tunisia
  Aboul-Qacem Echebbi
• 
  Turkiye
  Mehmet Akif Ersoy, Nâzım Hikmet
• 
  Turkmenistan
  Magtymguly Pyragy
• 
  Turks and Caicos Islands
  Not Declared
• 
  Tuvalu
  Not Declared
• 
  Uganda
  Not Declared
• 
  Ukraine
  Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Lesya Ukrainka
• 
  United Arab Emirates
  Not Declared
• 
  United Kingdom
  Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (England)
• 
  United States of America
  Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks
• 
  Uruguay
  Juan Zorrilla de San Martín
• 
  Uzbekistan
  Abdulla Oripov, Erkin Vohidov, Gʻafur Gʻulom, Mirtemir
• 
  Vanuatu
  Not Declared
• 
  Holy See (Vatican City)
  Not Declared
• 
  Venezuela
  Rómulo Gallegos, Andrés Eloy Blanco
• 
  Vietnam
  Nguyễn Du, Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, Hàn Mặc Tử
• 
  Wales
  Ifor ap Glyn
• 
  Yemen
  Not Declared
• 
  Zambia
  Not Declared
• 
  Zimbabwe
  Not Declared