List of copywriters

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Pioneers

These are copywriters who had a major influence on the modern advertising industry, particularly during its formative years.

Founders

These are copywriters who went on to found major multinational advertising agencies.

Award winners

{{ safesubst:#invoke:Unsubst||date=__DATE__ |$B= Template:Ambox }} Template:Expand list These are copywriters or former copywriters who have been inducted into a hall of fame or received a lifetime achievement award, sometimes posthumously.

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  • Phil Dusenberry, 2003 Advertising Hall of Fame inductee,<ref name=AAF/> 2007 One Club Creative Hall of Fame inductee<ref name="OneClub">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Bernice Fitz-Gibbon, 1982 Advertising Hall of Fame inductee,<ref name=AAF/> 1967 One Club Creative Hall of Fame inductee<ref name=OneClub/>
  • Jo Foxworth, 1997 Advertising Hall of Fame inductee<ref name=AAF/>
  • Benjamin Franklin, 1950 Advertising Hall of Fame inductee<ref name=AAF/>
  • Mary Frances Gerety, created A Diamond is Forever, the 'slogan of the century' according to Advertising Age
  • Howard Gossage, 1970 One Club Creative Hall of Fame inductee<ref name=OneClub/>
  • O. Milton Gossett, 1999 Advertising Hall of Fame inductee<ref name=AAF/>
  • Paula Green, 2012 One Club Creative Hall of Fame inductee<ref name=OneClub/>
  • Steve Hayden, 2013 One Club Creative Hall of Fame inductee<ref name=OneClub/>
  • Julian Koenig, 1966 One Club Creative Hall of Fame inductee,<ref name=OneClub/> 1966 One Club Creative Hall of Fame inductee<ref name=OneClub/>
  • Alex Kroll, 1998 Advertising Hall of Fame inductee<ref name=AAF/>
  • Mary Wells Lawrence, 2000 Advertising Hall of Fame inductee,<ref name=AAF/> 1969 One Club Creative Hall of Fame inductee<ref name=OneClub/>
  • Ed McCabe, 1974 One Club Creative Hall of Fame inductee<ref name=OneClub/>
  • Shirley Polykoff, 1981 Advertising Hall of Fame inductee,<ref name=AAF/> 1974 One Club Creative Hall of Fame inductee<ref name=OneClub/>
  • Erma Perham Proetz, 1952 Advertising Hall of Fame inductee<ref name=AAF/>
  • Rosser Reeves, 1994 Advertising Hall of Fame inductee,<ref name=AAF/> 1965 One Club Creative Hall of Fame inductee<ref name=OneClub/>
  • Helen Lansdowne Resor, 1967 Advertising Hall of Fame inductee<ref name=AAF/>
  • Jean Wade Rindlaub, 1990 Advertising Hall of Fame inductee<ref name=AAF/>
  • Jim Riswold, 2013 One Club Creative Hall of Fame inductee<ref name=OneClub/>
  • Phyllis Robinson, 1968 One Club Creative Hall of Fame inductee<ref name=OneClub/>
  • Dave Trott, 2004 Design and Art Direction lifetime achievement awardTemplate:Citation needed
  • Artemas Ward, 1975 Advertising Hall of Fame inductee<ref name=AAF/>
  • Lester Wunderman, 1999 Advertising Hall of Fame inductee<ref name=AAF/>

Former copywriters

Many creative artists spent time early in their careers working as copywriters. This is a list of such people – specifically, people who worked as copywriters before achieving notability in a creative field outside advertising. The names are followed by the careers in which they are notable.

Other

These are notable people who have worked as copywriters but do not fit into the categories above. Some achieved notability in another field before becoming copywriters, while others have combined copywriting with another career.

See also

References

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