the creator of a work, such as an author, writer, poet, or artist

interrogative personal pronoun: who, whom

(archaic) interrogative personal pronoun: who, whom

(obsolete, persists in some fossilized expressions) interrogative personal pronoun: who, whom

anyone

somebody, someone

(with negative verbs) no one, nobody / anyone, anybody

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see 誰, が.

(archaic) Synonym of 誰が (dare ga, “who”, nominative)

(literary) Synonym of 誰の (dare no, “whose”)