Patrick Lafcadio Hearn was a Greek and Irish writer, translator, and teacher whose work played a significant role in the introduction of the culture and literature of Japan to the mainstream Western world.
- Occupation
- writer, novelist, screenwriter, poet
- Position held
- foreign government advisor in Meiji Japan
- Citizenship
- Ireland, British Empire, Japan
- Born
- June 27, 1850, 1850
- Died
- September 26, 1904
