Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde is an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in various forms in the 1880s and early 1890s, he became one of London's most famous playwrights. He is best remembered for his works and plays, the novel The Painting of Dorian Gray and the Criminal Conviction Situation for Disrespecting Homosexual Behavior in "One of the Trials. First Celebrity Trial", imprisonment and premature death of meningitis at 46 years old. Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals from Dublin. Young Wilde learned to speak French and German fluently. In college, Wilde read Les Grands; it proved to be a remarkable classic, first at Trinity College, Dublin, then at Oxford. He associates himself with an emerging aesthetic philosophy, led by his two tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After graduating from university, Wilde moved to London in the trendy cultural and social circles.

Irish playwright, poet, and novelist who is best known for The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray. He's also known for his catchy, funny epigrams.