Chambers Dictionary of Great Quotations
Chambers Dictionary of Great Quotations
Editor: Chambers
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Chambers Harrap
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-1-47-360812-2
Category: Language & Literature - Quotations
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
The Chambers Dictionary of Great Quotations is a treasure trove of the wittiest, most insightful, most famous and most important words uttered in history.
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Table of Contents
- Contributors to the third and previous editions
- Introduction
- Abbreviations
- Quotations by Author
- a
- Abbott, Diane Julie 1953-
- Abelard, Peter 1079-1142
- Abercrombie, Lascelles 1881-1938
- Abrams, M(eyer) H(oward) 1912-
- Abse, Dannie 1923-2014
- Abu’l-’Alá Al-Ma’arri 973-1058
- Abzug, Bella originally Bella Savitzky 1920-98
- Accius 170-c.86
- Ace, Goodman 1899-1982
- Achebe, Chinua originally Albert Chinualumogo 1930-2013
- Acheson, Dean Gooderham 1893-1971
- Ackerman, Diane 1948-
- Ackroyd, Peter 1949-
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg, 1st Baron Acton of Aldenham 1834-1902
- Adamov, Arthur 1908-70
- Adams, Abigail 1744-1818
- Adams, Arthur Henry 1872-1936
- Adams, Charles Francis 1807-86
- Adams, Douglas Noël 1952-2001
- Adams, Gerry (Gerard) 1948-
- Adams, Henry Brooks 1838-1918
- Adams, John 1735-1826
- Adams, John Quincy 1767-1848
- Adams, Judge Richard 1846-1908
- Adams, Samuel 1722-1803
- Adams, Scott 1957-
- Adamson, Harold 1906-80
- Adcock, (Karen) Fleur 1934-
- Addison, Joseph 1672-1719
- Ade, George 1866-1944
- Adele (Adele Laurie Blue Adkins) 1988-
- Adelman, Kenneth Lee 1946-
- Adenauer, Konrad 1876-1967
- Adiga, Aravind 1974-
- Adler, Jerry 1949-
- Adler, Larry (Lawrence Cecil) 1914-2001
- Adler, Polly 1900-62
- Adorno, Theodor 1903-69
- Aelius Aristides ad 117-189
- St Aelred of Riveaulx d.1167
- Aeschylus c.525-c.456 BC
- Agassi, Andre 1970-
- Agassiz, (Jean) Louis (Rodolphe) 1807-73
- Agate, James 1877-1947
- Agawa, Hiroyuki 1920-
- Agnew, Spiro T(heodore) 1918-96
- Aguirre y Gil de Biedma, Countess of Bornos, Grandee of Spain, Esperanza 1952-
- Agustini, Delmira 1886-1914
- Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud 1956-
- St Aidan c.600-651
- Aitken, Jonathan William Patrick 1942-
- Ai Weiwei 1957-
- Akers, John Fellows 1934-2014
- Akihito 1933-
- Akins, Zoë 1886-1958
- Alain (Émile-Auguste Chartier) 1868-1951
- Alan of Lille also known as ‘Alanus de Insulis’ c.1114-1202
- Al-Aswany, Alaa 1957-
- Alba, Duke of, Ferdinand Alvarez de Toledo 1508-82
- Albee, Edward Franklin III 1928-
- Prince Albert 1819-61
- Alberti, Leon Battista 1404-72
- Albright, Madeleine Korbel originally Marie Jana Korbelová 1937-
- Alcaeus c.620-c.580 BC
- Alcott, Louisa May 1832-88
- Alcuin 735-804
- Alda, Alan 1936-
- Aldington, Richard pseudonym of Edward Godfree 1892-1962
- Aldiss, Brian Wilson 1925-
- Aldrich, Henry 1647-1710
- Aldrin, Edwin E(ugene) Jr known as ‘Buzz’ 1930-
- Alembert, Jean le Rond d’ 1717-83
- Alexander the Great 356-323 bc
- Alexander I 1777-1825
- Alexander II known as ‘the Liberator’ 1818-81
- Alexander, Cecil Frances 1818-95
- Alexander Sir William c.1567-1640
- Algren, Nelson 1909-81
- Ali, Muhammad formerly Cassius Clay 1942-
- Allainval, Abbé d’ 1700-53
- Allen, Henry Southworth 1941-
- Allen, Tim 1953-
- Allen, Woody pseudonym of Allen Stewart Konigsberg 1935-
- Allingham, Margery Louise 1904-66
- Allingham, William 1824-89
- Allsop, (Harold) Bruce 1912-2000
- Almeida, Manuel Antônio de 1831-61
- Almodóvar, Pedro 1951-
- Alsop, Stewart 1914-74
- Alther, Lisa née Reed 1944-
- Altman, Robert 1925-2006
- Amado, Jorge 1912-2001
- St Ambrose c.339-397 ad
- American Library Association
- Amerine, Maynard Andrew 1911-98
- Amery, Leo(pold) Charles Maurice Stennett 1873-1955
- Amin (Dada), Idi 1925-2003
- Amis, Sir Kingsley 1922-95
- Amis, Martin Louis 1949-
- Ammianus Marcellinus c.330-390 ad
- Amundsen Roald Engelbregt Gravning 1872-1928
- Anaxagoras c.500-428 bc
- Ancona, Ronni 1968-
- Anderson Admiral George Jr c.1907-1992
- Anderson, John Edward 1917-2011
- Anderson, Dame Judith originally Frances Margaret Anderson 1898-1992
- Anderson, Lindsay 1932-94
- Anderson, Maxwell 1888-1959
- Anderson, Poul William 1926-2001
- Anderson, Robert Woodruff 1917-2009
- Anderson, Sherwood 1876-1941
- Andrade, Carlos Drummond de 1902-87
- Andrade, Mário de 1893-1945
- Andreas Capellanus fl. late 12c
- Andrewes, Lancelot 1555-1626
- Andrews, Julie originally Julia Elizabeth Wells 1935-
- Angell, Roger 1920-
- Angelou, Maya originally Maya Johnson 1928-2014
- Angle, Colin 1967-
- Annan, Noël Gilroy, Baron 1916-2000
- Anne, Queen 1665-1714
- Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise 1950-
- Annenberg, Walter H 1908-2002
- Anonymous
- Anouilh, Jean 1910-87
- St Anselm 1033-1109
- Antheil, George 1900-59
- Anthony, Susan B(rownell) 1820-1906
- Antiphon 5c bc
- Apelles 4c bc
- Apollinaire, Guillaume originally Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzki 1880-1918
- Appel, Jacob M. 1973-
- Appleton, Sir Edward Victor 1892-1965
- Appleton, Thomas Gold 1812-84
- Aquinas, St Thomas 1225-74
- Arbuthnot, John 1667-1735
- Archer, Jeffrey Howard Lord 1940-
- Archer, Mary 1944-
- Archimedes c.287-212 bc
- Arenas, Reinaldo 1943-90
- Aretino, Pietro 1492-1557
- Arguedas, José María 1911-69
- Ariosto, Ludovico 1474-1533
- Aristophanes c.448-c.388 bc
- Aristotle 384-322 BC
- Armstrong, Neil A(lden) 1930-2012
- Armstrong, Robert, Baron Armstrong of Ilminster 1927-
- Arnald Amaury d.1225
- Arnold, Matthew 1822-88
- Arnold, Thomas 1795-1842
- Arnold, Thurman Wesley 1891-1969
- Arras, Jean d’ also known as Jean Blondel fl.c.1375
- Asahi Shimbun
- Ascham, Roger 1515-68
- Ashbery, John Lawrence 1927-
- Ashcroft, John David 1942-
- Ashdown (of Norton-sub-Hamdon) Paddy Ashdown Baron 1941-
- Ashford, Daisy Mary Margaret 1881-1972
- Asimov, Isaac 1920-92
- Aslet, Clive William 1955-
- Asquith, Herbert Henry, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith 1852-1928
- Asquith, Margot 1864-1945
- Asquith of Yarnbury, (Helen) Violet Bonham-Carter Baroness 1887-1969
- Assange, Julian Paul 1971-
- Astell, Mary 1668-1731
- Astley, Sir Jacob 1579-1652
- Astor (of Hever Castle), Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess née Langhorne 1879-1964
- Asturias, Miguel Ángel 1889-1974
- Atatürk, Mustapha Kemal 1880-1938
- Atkinson, Brooks 1894-1984
- Atkinson, Kate 1951-
- Atkinson, Ron 1939-
- Atlas, Charles 1894-1972
- Atlas, James 1949-
- Attenborough, Sir David Frederick 1926-
- Attlee (of Walthamstow), Clement (Richard) Attlee, 1st Earl 1883-1967
- Atwood, Margaret Eleanor 1939-
- Auber, Daniel-François-Esprit 1782-1871
- Aubrey, John 1626-97
- Auchincloss, Louis Stanton 1917-2010
- Auden, W(ystan) H(ugh) 1907-73
- St Augustine originally Aurelius Augustinus AD 354-430
- Augustus originally Gaius Iulius Caesar Octavianus 63BC-AD 14
- Aung San Suu Kyi 1945-
- Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus ad 121-80
- Austen, Jane 1775-1817
- Auster, Paul pseudonym of Paul Benjamin 1947-
- Austin, Alfred 1835-1913
- Austin, Mary Hunter 1868-1934
- Austin, Warren R(obinson) 1877-1962
- Avison, Margaret 1918-2007
- Ayckbourn, Sir Alan 1939-
- Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules 1910-89
- Ayres, Pam 1947-
- Aytoun, Sir Robert 1570-1638
- Aytoun, William Edmonstoune 1813-65
- b
- Babbage, Charles 1792-1871
- Babbitt, Bruce Edward 1938-
- Babel, Isaac 1894-c.1939
- Babeuf, François Noël 1760-97
- Bacall, Lauren originally Betty Perske 1924-2014
- Bach, Johann Sebastian 1685-1750
- Bach, Richard 1936-
- Bacon, Francis, Viscount St Albans 1561-1626
- Bacon, Francis 1909-92
- Bacon, Martha 1917-81
- Bacon, Roger known as Doctor Mirabilis c.1214-c.1292
- Baden-Powell, Robert Stephenson Smyth, 1st Baron 1857-1941
- Baedeker, Karl 1801-59
- Baer, George Frederick 1842-1914
- Bagehot, Walter 1826-77
- Bailey, David 1938-
- Bailey, F(rancis) Lee 1933-
- Bailey, Nathan d.1742
- Bailey, Philip James 1816-1902
- Baillie, Robert 1599-1662
- Bainbridge, Dame Beryl Margaret 1934-2010
- Bairnsfather, Bruce 1888-1959
- Baker, Colin 1943-
- Baker, Howard Henry, Jr 1925-2014
- Baker, James Addison, III 1930-
- Baker, John Austin 1928-2014
- Baker (of Dorking) Kenneth Baker Baron 1934-
- Baker, Russell Wayne 1925-
- Bakunin, Mikhail Alekseyevich 1814-76
- Balazs, Bela originally Hubert Bauer 1884-1949
- Balcon, Michael 1896-1977
- Baldwin, James Arthur 1924-87
- Baldwin (of Bewdley), Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl 1867-1947
- Bale, Christian (Charles Philip) 1974-
- Balfour, Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl 1848-1930
- Ball, George Wildman 1909-94
- Ball, John d.1381
- Ballads
- Ballard, J(ames) G(raham) 1930-2009
- Balliett, Whitney 1926-2007
- Balzac, Honoré de 1799-1850
- Banda, Hastings Kamuzu 1898-1997
- Bandeira, Manuel 1886-1968
- Bankhead, Tallulah 1903-68
- Banks, Iain Menzies 1954-2013
- Banks, Lynne Reid 1929-
- Bannister, Sir Roger Gilbert 1929-
- Banting, Frederick Grant 1891-1941
- Banville, (William) John 1945-
- Barach, Alvan Leroy 1895-1977
- Baraka, Amiri adopted name of LeRoi (Everett Leroy) Jones 1934-2014
- Barbellion, W(illiam) N(ero) P(ilate) pseudonym of Bruce Frederick Cummings 1889-1919
- Barbirolli, Sir John 1899-1970
- Barbour, John c.1316-1395
- Barker, George Granville 1913-91
- Barkley, Alben William 1877-1956
- Barlow, Joel 1754-1812
- Barnard, Frederick R
- Barnes, Clive Alexander 1927-2008
- Barnes, Djuna 1892-1982
- Barnes, Julian Patrick 1946-
- Barnum, P(hineas) T(aylor) 1810-91
- Baron Cohen, Sacha (Noam) 1971-
- Barr, Alfred Hamilton Jr 1902-81
- Barrie, Sir J(ames) M(atthew) 1860-1937
- Barrington, Jonah 1941-
- Barry, Marion Shepilov Jr 1936-2014
- Barrymore, Ethel 1879-1959
- Barrymore, John 1882-1942
- Barrymore, Lionel 1878-1954
- Barth, John Simmons 1930-
- Barth, Karl 1886-1968
- Barthelme, Donald 1931-89
- Barthes, Roland 1915-80
- Bartley, Robert Leroy 1937-2003
- Bartók, Béla 1881-1945
- Baruch, Bernard Mannes 1870-1965
- Barzun, Jacques 1907-2012
- Baselitz, Georg 1938-
- Basho, Matsuo 1644-94
- Baskin, Leonard 1922-2000
- Bastard, Thomas 1566-1618
- Bates, H(erbert) E(rnest) 1905-74
- Bates, Katharine Lee 1859-1929
- Bateson, Gregory 1904-80
- Batman, John 1801-39
- Battelle, Phyllis 1922-
- Baudelaire, Charles 1821-67
- Baughan, Blanche Edith 1870-1958
- Baxter, Sir Beverley (Arthur) 1891-1964
- Baxter, Richard 1615-91
- Beamer, Todd 1968-2001
- Bearden, Romare 1914-88
- Beasant, Dave 1959-
- Beattie, Ann 1947-
- Beattie, James 1735-1803
- Beatty, David, 1st Earl Beatty 1871-1936
- Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de 1732-99
- Beaumont, Francis c.1584-1616
- Beaumont, Francis and Fletcher, John c.1584-1616,
- Beaverbrook, Max (William Maxwell Aitken), 1st Baron 1879-1964
- Beckenbauer, Franz 1945-
- Becker, Gary Stanley 1930-2014
- Beckett, Dame Margaret (Mary) 1943-
- Beckett, Samuel 1906-89
- Becket, Thomas à, Saint 1118-70
- Beckham, David 1975-
- Beckham, Victoria 1975-
- Bede known as ‘the Venerable’ 673-735
- Bee, Barnard Elliot 1823-61
- Beecham, Sir Thomas 1879-1961
- Beerbohm, Sir (Henry) Max(imilian) 1872-1956
- Beethoven, Ludwig van 1770-1827
- Beeton, Isabella Mary née Mayson 1836-65
- Behan, Brendan Francis 1923-64
- Behn, Aphra née Amis 1640-89
- Behrman, S(amuel) N(athaniel) 1893-1973
- Belasco, David stagename of David Valasco 1859-1931
- Bell, Alexander Melville 1819-1905
- Bell, Bernard Iddings 1886-1958
- Bell, (Arthur) Clive Howard 1881-1964
- Bell, Martin 1938-
- Bell, Vanessa née Stephen 1879-1961
- Bellay, Joachim du 1522-60
- Belli, Carlos Germán 1927-
- Bellini, Mario 1935-
- Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre 1870-1953
- Bellow, Saul 1915-2005
- Bemelmans, Ludwig 1898-1962
- Benaud, Richie (Richard) 1930-
- Benchley, Robert Charles 1889-1945
- Bendix, Reinhard 1916-91
- Benedetti, Mario 1920-2009
- Pope Benedict XVI originally Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger 1927-
- Benét, Stephen Vincent 1898-1943
- Benn, Tony (Anthony Neil Wedgwood) 1925 -2014
- Bennard, George 1873-1958
- Bennett, Alan 1934-
- Bennett, (Enoch) Arnold 1867-1931
- Bennett, James Gordon, Snr 1795-1872
- Bennis, Warren Gameliel 1925-2014
- Benson, A(rthur) C(hristopher) 1862-1925
- Benson, Stella 1892-1933
- Bentham, Jeremy 1748-1832
- Bentley, Edmund Clerihew 1875-1956
- Bentley, Nicholas Clerihew 1907-78
- Bentsen, Lloyd Millard Jr 1921-2006
- Benuzzi, Felice 1910-88
- Bercow, John (Simon) 1963-
- Berdyaev, Nicholas 1874-1948
- Berendt, John 1939-
- Berenson, Bernard 1865-1959
- Beresford, Lord Charles 1846-1919
- Berg, Alban 1885-1935
- Berger, Bennett Maurice 1926-2005
- Berger, Gerhard 1959-
- Berger, John Peter 1926-
- Bergreen, Laurence 1950-
- Berkeley, George 1685-1753
- Berlin, Irving originally Israel Baline 1888-1989
- Berlin, Sir Isaiah 1907-97
- Berlusconi, Silvio 1936-
- Bernanos, Georges 1888-1948
- Bernard of Chartres d. c.1130
- St Bernard of Clairvaux 1090-1153
- Bernard, Claude 1813-78
- Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Jacques-Henri 1737-1814
- Bernays, Edward 1891-1995
- Berners, Dame Juliana or Juliana Barnes fl.14c
- Berners-Lee, Sir Tim(othy John) 1955-
- Bernhardt, Sarah stage-name of Sarah Henriette Rosine Bernard 1844-1923
- Bernini, Gianlorenzo 1598-1680
- Bernstein, Leonard 1918-90
- Berra, Yogi Lawrence Peter 1925-
- Berry, Chuck (Charles Edward Anderson) 1926-
- Berryman, John originally John Allyn Smith 1914-72
- Berton, Pierre 1920-2004
- Best, George 1946-2005
- Bethell, (Mary) Ursula 1874-1945
- Bethmann Hollweg, Theobald von 1856-1921
- Bethune, Norman 1890-1939
- Betjeman, Sir John 1906-84
- Beuys, Joseph 1921-86
- Bevan, Aneurin 1897-1960
- Beveridge, William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron 1879-1963
- Bevin, Ernest 1881-1951
- Bezos, Jeff(rey Preston) 1964-
- Bhagavad Gita
- Bhutto, Bilawal Zardari 1988-
- Bible (Old Testament)
- Bible (Apocrypha)
- Bible (New Testament)
- Bible (Vulgate)
- Bickerstaffe, Isaac c.1735-c.1812
- Biddle, Francis Beverley 1886-1968
- Biden, Joe (Joseph Robinette) 1942-
- Biel, Jessica Claire 1982-
- Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett 1842-c.1914
- Biko, Stephen 1946-77
- Billings, Josh pseudonym of Henry Wheeler Shaw 1818-85
- Binyon, (Robert) Laurence 1869-1943
- Bioy Casares, Adolfo 1914-99
- Bird, Isabella married name Isabella Bishop 1831-1904
- Birkenhead, F(rederick) E(dwin) Smith, 1st Earl of
- Birney, Earle 1904-95
- Birns, Harold 1914-82
- Biro, Lajos 1880-1948
- Bishop, Elizabeth 1911-79
- Bishop, Jim 1907-87
- Bismarck, Otto Edward Leopold, Fürst von (Prince of) 1815-98
- Bissell, Claude T(homas) 1916-2000
- Black, Arthur 1943-
- Black (of Crossharbour) Conrad Black, Baron 1944-
- Black, Hugo LaFayette 1886-1971
- Blacker, Valentine 1728-1823
- Blackstone, Sir William 1723-80
- Blainey, Geoffrey Norman 1930-
- Blair, Cherie 1954-
- Blair, Hamish pseudonym of Andrew James Fraser Blair
- Blair, Tony (Anthony Charles Lynton) 1953-
- Blake, Eubie James Hubert 1883-1983
- Blake, Peter 1932-
- Blake, William 1757-1827
- Blanc, Raymond 1949-
- Blanch, Lesley 1904-2007
- Blanchflower, Danny (Robert Dennio) 1926-93
- Blass, Bill (William Ralph) 1922-2002
- Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna 1831-91
- Blest Gana, Alberto 1830-1920
- Blinder, Alan 1945-
- Bliss, Sir Arthur 1891-1975
- Blix, Hans 1928-
- Blixen, Karen, Baroness pseudonym Isak Dinesen 1885-1962
- Bloom, Allan 1930-92
- Bloom, André Borisovich, Anthony, Metropolitan of Sourozh 1914-2003
- Bloom, Harold 1930-
- Bloomberg, Michael Rubens 1942-
- Blough, Roger M(iles) 1904-85
- Blunden, Edmund Charles 1896-1974
- Blunkett, David 1947-
- Blythe, Ronald George 1922-
- Boccioni, Umberto 1882-1916
- Bodenheim, Maxwell 1892-1954
- Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus c.480-524 ad
- Bogan, Louise 1897-1970
- Bogarde, Sir Dirk originally Derek Jules Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde 1921-99
- Bogart, John B 1848-1921
- Bohlen, Charles Eustis 1904-74
- Boileau (Despréaux) Nicolas 1636-1711
- Bok, Derek 1930-
- Bold, Alan 1943-98
- Bolingbroke, Henry St John, 1st Viscount 1678 -1751
- Bolívar, Simón 1783-1830
- Bolles, Richard Nelson 1927-
- Bolt, Robert Oxton 1924-95
- Bolt, Usain St Leo 1986-
- Bonavia, David 1940-88
- Bond, Carrie Jacobs 1862-1946
- Bonds, Barry Lamar 1964-
- Bone, Sir David 1874-1959
- Bonham Carter, Helena 1966-
- Bonhoeffer, Dietrich 1906-45
- Bono real name Paul Hewson 1960-
- Book of Common Prayer
- Bookchin, Murray pseudonym of Lewis Herber 1921-2006
- Booth, John Wilkes 1839-65
- Booth, Junius Brutus 1796-1852
- Booth, Martin 1944-2004
- Boothby, Sir Robert John Graham, 1st Baron Boothby of Buchan and Rattray Head 1900-86
- Boothroyd, Betty Boothroyd, Baroness 1929-
- Borah, William Edgar 1865-1940
- Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso 1608-79
- Borges, Jorge Luis 1899-1986
- Borgia, Cesare 1476-1507
- Borman, Frank 1928-
- Born, Max 1882-1970
- Borotra, Jean 1898-1994
- Borovoy, A Alan 1932-
- Borrow, George Henry 1803-81
- Bosquet, Pierre 1810-61
- Bossidy, John Collins 1860-1928
- Boswell, James 1740-95
- Botha, P(ieter) W(illem) 1932-2006
- Botham, Sir Ian Terence 1955-
- Bottomley, Gordon 1874-1948
- Boucicault, Dion(ysus Lardner) originally Dionysius Lardner Bursiquot c.1820-1890
- Boulanger, Nadia 1887-1979
- Boulding, Kenneth Ewart 1910-93
- Boulton, Sir Harold Edwin 1859-1935
- Bourassa, Henri 1868-1952
- Bourdillon, F(rancis) W(illiam) 1852-1951
- Bowen, Catherine Shober née Drinker 1897-1973
- Bowen, Frank Charles 1894-1957
- Bowie, David real name David Robert Jones 1947-
- Bowles, Paul Frederick 1910-99
- Boycott, Geoffrey 1940-
- Boyd, L(ouis) M(alcolm) 1927-2007
- Boyd, William Andrew Murray 1952-
- Boyer, Charles 1899-1978
- Boyer, Dr Ernest L 1928-95
- Boyle, Danny (Daniel) 1956-
- Boyle, Peter G(erard) 1941-
- Bracken, Peg 1918-2007
- Bracken, Thomas 1843-98
- Bradbury, Malcolm Stanley 1932-2000
- Bradbury, Ray(mond Douglas) 1920-2012
- Bradley, Francis Herbert 1846-1924
- Bradley, Omar Nelson 1893-1981
- Bradman, Sir Don(ald George) 1908-2001
- Bradstreet, Anne née Dudley 1612-72
- Brady, Nicholas F(rederick) 1930-
- Bragg, Melvyn Bragg, Baron 1939-
- Brahms, Johannes 1833-97
- Bramante, Donato 1444-1514
- Bramston, James c.1694-1744
- Brand, Jo(sephine Grace) 1957-
- Brand, Russell Edward 1975-
- Brando, Marlon 1924-2004
- Branson, Sir Richard (Charles Nicholas) 1950-
- Braque, Georges 1882-1963
- Brasch, Charles 1909-73
- Brathwaite, Edward Kamau originally Lawson Edward Brathwaite 1930-
- Bratton, John W(alter) 1867-1947
- Braudy, Leo Beal 1941-
- Braun, Wernher von 1912-77
- Brautigan, Richard 1935-84
- Brecher, Irving 1914-2008
- Brecht, Bertolt Eugen Friedrich 1898-1956
- Brenan, Gerald 1894-1987
- Brennan, William J(oseph) Jr 1906-97
- Brennus
- Breslin, Jimmy 1930-
- Brewster, Kingman, Jr 1919-88
- Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich 1906-82
- Bricker, John W(illiam) 1893-1986
- Bridges, Robert Seymour 1844-1930
- Bridges, (Henry) Styles 1898-1961
- Bridie, James pseudonym of Osborne Henry Mavor 1888-1951
- Bright, John 1811-89
- Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme 1755-1826
- Brinkley, David McClure 1920-2003
- Brisbane, Arthur 1864-1936
- Britten, Baron (Edward) Benjamin, of Aldeburgh 1913-76
- Brock, Sir Isaac 1768-1812
- Brodber, Erna 1940-
- Brodkey, Harold 1930-96
- Brodsky, Ioseph 1940-96
- Brody, Hugh 1943-
- Bronowski, Jacob 1908-74
- Brontë, Anne 1820-49
- Brontë, Charlotte 1816-55
- Brontë, Emily Jane 1818-48
- Brooke, Frances née Moore 1724-89
- Brooke, Rupert Chawner 1887-1915
- Brookner, Anita 1928-
- Brooks, Louise 1906-85
- Brooks, Mel pseudonym of Melvin Kaminsky 1926-
- Brooks, Van Wyck 1886-1963
- Brougham Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux 1778-1868
- Broun, (Matthew) Heywood Campbell 1888-1939
- Brown, (James) Gordon 1951-
- Brown, John 1800-59
- Brown, John Mason 1900-69
- Brown, Michael DeWayne 1954-
- Brown, Olympia 1835-1900
- Brown, Pat (Edmund Gerald, Sr) 1905-96
- Brown, Rita Mae 1944-
- Brown, Thomas 1663-1704
- Brown, Walter fl.15c
- Browne, Sir Thomas 1605-82
- Browne, William 1692-1774
- Browning, Elizabeth née Barrett 1806-61
- Browning, Guy 1964-
- Browning, Robert 1812-89
- Broyard, Anatole 1920-90
- Brummel, George Bryan called Beau Brummell 1778-1840
- Brunet, Michel 1917-85
- Brunner, John Kilian Houston 1934-95
- Bruno, Frank(lin Roy) 1961-
- Bryan, Richard H(udson) 1937-
- Bryan, William Jennings 1860-1925
- Bryant, David 1931-
- Bryant, William Cullen 1794-1878
- Bryson, Bill 1951-
- Buber, Martin 1878-1965
- Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir 1875-1940
- Buchanan, James 1791-1868
- Buchman, Sidney 1902-75
- Buchwald, Art 1925-2007
- Buck, Gene (Edward Eugene) 1885-1957
- Buck, Pearl née Sydenstricker 1892-1973
- Bucke, Richard Maurice 1837-1902
- Buckingham, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of 1628-87
- Buechner, (Carl) Frederick 1926-
- Buffett, Warren Edward 1930-
- Buford, Bill (William Holmes) 1954-
- Bukowski, Charles 1920-94
- Buller, A(rthur) H(enry) Reginald 1874-1944
- Bullock, Alan Louis Charles, Baron Bullock 1914-2004
- Bulmer-Thomas, Ivor 1905-93
- Bülow, Prince Bernhard Heinrich von 1849-1929
- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton 1803-73
- Bunting, Basil 1900-85
- Buñuel, Luis 1900-83
- Bunyan, John 1628-88
- Burbank, Luther 1849-1926
- Burchard, Samuel Dickinson 1812-91
- Burgess, Anthony real name John Anthony Burgess Wilson 1917-94
- Burgon, John William 1813-88
- Burke, Edmund 1729-97
- Burke, Johnny 1908-64
- Burke, Kathy 1964-
- Burke, Kenneth 1897-1986
- Burke, Tim(othy) c.1942-
- Burns, Ken Lauren 1953-
- Burns, Robert 1759-96
- Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875-1950
- Burroughs, William S(eward) 1914-97
- Burt, Benjamin Hapgood 1880-1950
- Burton, C(harles) L(uther) 1876-1961
- Burton, Robert pseudonym Democritus Junior 1577-1640
- Buruma, Ian 1951-
- Busby, Sir Matt(hew) 1909-94
- Bush, Barbara Pierce 1925-
- Bush, George Herbert Walker 1924-
- Bush, George W(alker) 1948-
- Bush, Laura Lane Welch 1946-
- Bush, Vannevar 1890-1974
- Bushnell, Candace 1958-
- Busoni, Ferruccio Benvenuto 1866-1924
- Bussy-Rabutin, Comte de 1618-93
- Butler, Joseph 1692-1752
- Butler (of Saffron Walden) R(ichard) A(usten) Butler, Baron 1902-82
- Butler, Samuel 1612-80
- Butler, Samuel 1835-1902
- Butler, William 1535-1618
- Butterfield, Sir Herbert 1900-79
- Byatt, Dame A(ntonia) S(usan) née Drabble 1936-
- Byrd, William 1543-1623
- Byrne, David 1952-
- Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale 1788-1824
- Byron, Henry James 1834-84
- Byron, Robert 1905-41
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- Cabell, James Branch 1879-1958
- Cable, (John) Vince(nt) 1943-
- Cabrera Infante, Guillermo 1929-2005
- Cadoria, Brigadier General Sherian G(race) 1940-
- Caesar, Irving 1895-1996
- Caesar, Gaius Julius 100/102-44 bc
- Cage, John 1912-92
- Cagney, James 1899-1986
- Cain, James M(allahan) 1892-1977
- Calas, Nicolas 1907-88
- Caldwell, Philip 1920-2013
- Calhoun, John Caldwell 1782-1850
- Caligiuri, Paul 1964-
- Caligula properly Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus ad 12-41
- Callaghan (of Cardiff) (Leonard) James Callaghan Baron 1912-2005
- Callanan, Jeremiah John 1795-1829
- Callow, Simon Phillip Hugh 1949-
- Calonne, Charles Alexandre de 1734-1802
- Calvino, Italo 1923-85
- Cambronne, Pierre, Baron de 1770-1842
- Cameron, David William Donald 1966-
- Cameron, James 1954-
- Campbell, Donald Malcolm 1921-67
- Campbell, Kim originally Avril Phaedra Campbell 1947-
- Campbell, Mrs Patrick née Beatrice Rose Stella Tanner 1865-1940
- Campbell, (Ignatius) Roy Dunnachie 1901-57
- Campbell, Thomas 1777-1844
- Campbell, Sir (Walter) Menzies 1941-
- Campion, Jane 1954-
- Campion, Thomas 1567-1620
- Campo, Estanislao de 1834-80
- Camus, Albert 1913-60
- Canmore, Malcolm d.1093
- Cannadine, Sir David 1950-
- Cannan, Edwin 1861-1935
- Canning, George 1770-1827
- Cantillon, Richard c.1680-1734
- Cantona, Eric 1966-
- Capello, Fabio 1946-
- Capote, Truman 1924-84
- Capp, Al originally Alfred Gerald Caplin 1909-79
- Capra, Frank 1897-1991
- Caraway, Hattie Wyatt 1878-1950
- Carballido, Emilio 1925-2008
- Cardus, Sir Neville 1889-1975
- Carew, Thomas 1595-1639
- Carey, John 1934-
- Carey, Peter 1943-
- Carleton, William 1794-1869
- Carlyle, Jane Baillie née Jane Baillie Welsh 1801-66
- Carlyle, Thomas 1795-1881
- Carman, (William) Bliss 1861-1929
- Carnegie, Andrew 1835-1919
- Carnegie, Dale originally Dale Carnagey 1888-1955
- Carpentier, Alejo 1904-80
- Carr, E(dward) H(allet) 1892-1982
- Carr, Emily 1871-1945
- Carr, J(ames) L(loyd) 1912-94
- Carrà, Carlo 1881-1966
- Carracci, Annibale 1560-1609
- Carrigan, Jim R(ichard) 1929-2014
- Carroll, Lewis pseudonym of Rev Charles Lutwidge Dodgson 1832-98
- Carson, Edward Henry Baron 1854-1935
- Carter, Angela Olive 1940-92
- Carter, Jimmy (James Earl) 1924-
- Carter, Lillian 1898-1983
- Cartier, Jacques 1491-1557
- Cartland, Dame (Mary) Barbara Hamilton 1901-2000
- Cartwright, John 1740-1824
- Caruso, Enrico 1873-1921
- Cary, (Arthur) Joyce Lunel 1888-1957
- Casal, Julián del 1863-93
- Casals, Pablo 1876-1973
- Cassini, Oleg Lolewski 1913-2006
- Casson, Sir Hugh Maxwell 1910-99
- Castle (of Blackburn) Barbara Anne Castle Baroness 1910-2002
- Castle (of Islington) Ted (Edward Cyril) Castle Baron 1907-79
- Castro (Ruz) Fidel 1927-
- Caswall, Edward 1814-78
- Cather, Willa Sibert 1873-1947
- Cato full name Marcus Porcius Cato known as ‘the Elder’ or ‘the Censor’ 234-149 bc
- Cattell, Raymond B(ernard) 1905-98
- Catto, Henry E(dward) 1930-2011
- Catullus full name Gaius Valerius Catullus c.84-c.54 bc
- Caulfield, Sir Bernard 1914-94
- Causley, Charles 1917-2003
- Cavafy, Constantine pseudonym of Konstantínos Pétron Kaváfis 1863-1933
- Cavell, Edith Louisa 1865-1915
- Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle 1624-74
- Caxton, William c.1422-c.1491
- Cecil, Lord (Edward Christian) David Gascoy 1902-86
- Cecil, Robert Arthur James Gascoyne, 5th Marquis of Salisbury 1893-1972
- Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury 1830-1903
- Céline, Louis-Ferdinand pseudonym of Louis Ferdinand Destouches 1894-1961
- Cellini, Benvenuto 1500-71
- Cennini, Cennino c.1370-c.1440
- Cervantes, Miguel de 1547-1616
- Césaire, Aimé Fernand 1913-2008
- Cézanne, Paul 1839-1906
- Chalmers, Patrick Reginald 1872-1942
- Chamberlain, Sir (Joseph) Austen 1863-1937
- Chamberlain, Joseph 1836-1914
- Chamberlain, (Arthur) Neville 1869-1940
- Chamberlain, Wilt(on Norman) 1936-99
- Chamfort, Sébastien-Roch Nicolas 1741-94
- Chandler, Raymond 1888-1959
- Chanel, Gabrielle known as Coco 1883-1971
- Channing, Carol Elaine 1921-
- Channon, Sir Henry 1897-1958
- Chao AD 168-89
- Chaplin, Charlie (Sir Charles Spencer) 1889-1977
- Chapman, Arthur 1873-1935
- Chapman, (Anthony) Colin Bruce 1928-82
- Chapman, Dinos 1962-
- Chapman, George c.1559-1634
- Chapman, Jake 1966-
- Chapman, John 1900-72
- Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon 1699-1779
- Chargaff, Erwin 1905-2002
- Charles, Elizabeth 1828-96
- Charles I 1600-49
- Charles II 1630-85
- Charles V 1500-58
- Charles, Prince of Wales 1948-
- Charlton, Sir Bobby (Robert) 1937-
- Charlton, Jack (John) 1935-
- Charpak, Georges 1924-2010
- Chase, Edna Woolman 1877-1954
- Chatwin, Bruce 1940-89
- Chaucer, Geoffrey c.1345-1400
- Chávez (Frías) Hugo Rafael 1954-2013
- Cheever, John William 1912-82
- Chekhov, Anton 1860-1904
- Chelmsford, Frederick John Napier Thesiger, 1st Viscount 1868-1933
- Cheney, Dick (Richard Bruce) 1946-
- Cher originally Cheryl Sarkisian La Pier 1946-
- Chereskin, Alvin 1928-
- Chernow, Ron 1949-
- Cherry-Garrard, Apsley 1886-1959
- Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller 1823-86
- Chesnutt, Charles Waddell 1858-1932
- Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of 1694-1773
- Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith) 1874-1936
- Chiang Kai-Shek 1887-1975
- Chilcott, Gareth 1956-
- Child, Julia McWilliams 1912-2004
- Ch’in Chia c.150 bc
- Chirac, Jacques René 1932-
- Chirico, Giorgio de 1888-1978
- Chisholm, Caroline née Jones 1808-77
- Chocano, José Santos 1875-1934
- Chomsky, (Avram) Noam 1928-
- Chopin, Kate (Katherine) née O’Flaherty 1851-1904
- Christiansen, Arthur 1904-63
- Christie, Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa née Miller 1890-1976
- Christie, Linford 1960-
- Christine de Pisan 1364-1430
- Christopher, Warren Minor 1925-2011
- Church, Richard 1893-1972
- Churchill, Charles 1731-64
- Churchill, Jeanette née Jeanette Jerome 1852-1921
- Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer 1849-95
- Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer 1874-1965
- Ciardi, John 1916-85
- Cibber, Colley 1671-1757
- Cicero full name Marcus Tullius Cicero 106-43 bc
- Cisneros, Henry 1947-
- Cixous, Hélène 1937-
- Clare, John 1793-1864
- Clark, Alan Kenneth McKenzie 1928-99
- Clark, Eleanor 1913-96
- Clark, Kenneth Mackenzie Clark Baron 1903-83
- Clark, Ralph c.1755-1794
- Clark, Ramsey 1927-
- Clark, William R and Michael Grunstein
- Clarke, Sir Arthur C(harles) 1917-2008
- Clarke, Kenneth Harry 1940-
- Claudel, Paul 1868-1955
- Claudius Caecus, Appius 4c-3c bc
- Clausewitz, Karl von 1780-1831
- Clavell, James du Maresq 1924-94
- Cleaver, Eldridge 1935-98
- Cleese, John 1939-
- Clegg, Nick (Nicholas William Peter) 1967-
- Clemenceau, Georges 1841-1929
- Cleveland, (Stephen) Grover 1837-1908
- Cleveland, John 1613-1658
- Clifford, Clark M(cAdams) 1906-98
- Clinton, Bill (William) 1946-
- Clinton, Hillary Rodham 1947-
- Clive, Kitty 1711-85
- Clive, Robert, 1st Baron of Plassey 1725-74
- Clooney, George Timothy 1961-
- Clough, Arthur Hugh 1819-61
- Clough, Brian 1935-2004
- Cobain, Kurt (Donald) 1967-94
- Cobbett, William 1762-1835
- Cobden, Richard 1804-65
- Cockburn, Alison née Rutherford 1713-94
- Cocker, Jarvis 1963-
- Cocteau, Jean 1889-1963
- Coen, Joel 1954-
- Coetzee, J(ohn) M(axwell) 1940-
- Coffee, Lenore 1900-84
- Coffinhal, Jean Baptiste 1754-94
- Cohan, George M(ichael) 1878-1942
- Coke, Sir Edward 1552-1634
- Coke, F T Desmond 1879-1931
- Cole, Mac
- Cole, W Sterling 1904-88
- Cole, William 1919-2000
- Coleman, Ornette 1930-
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 1772-1834
- Colette full name Sidonie Gabrielle Colette 1873-1954
- Collingwood, Cuthbert, Baron 1748-1810
- Collingwood, R(obin) G(eorge) 1889-1943
- Collins, Billy 1941-
- Collins, Charles 1874-1926
- Collins, Michael 1890-1922
- Collins, Michael 1930-
- Collins, Phil 1951-
- Collins, Suzanne Marie 1962-
- Collins, William 1721-59
- Colombo, John Robert 1936-
- Colton, Charles Caleb 1780-1832
- Coltrane, John 1926-67
- Colum, Padraic 1881-1972
- Columbus, Christopher Spanish name Cristóbal Colón 1451 -1506
- Comden, Betty pseudonym of Elizabeth Cohen 1919-2006
- Commoner, Barry 1917-2012
- Comnena, Anna 1083-1153
- Compton-Burnett, Dame Ivy 1892-1969
- Comte, Auguste Isidore Marie Françoise 1798-1857
- Conant, James Bryant 1893-1978
- Condon, Richard 1915-96
- Confucius or K’ung Fu-tse, ‘The Master K’ung’ 551-479 bc
- Congreve, William 1670-1729
- Conklin, Edwin G(rant) 1863-1952
- Connally, John Bowden 1917-93
- Connally, Tom (Thomas Terry) 1877-1963
- Connell, James 1852-1929
- Connery, Sir Sean 1930-
- Connolly, Billy 1942-
- Connolly, Cyril Vernon 1903-74
- Connolly, James 1868-1916
- Connor, Sir William Neil pseudonym Cassandra 1909-67
- Conrad, Joseph originally Jozef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski 1857-1924
- Conran, Shirley Ida née Pearce 1932-
- Conroy, (Donald) Pat(rick) 1945-
- Constable, John 1776-1837
- Constant (de Rebecque) (Henri) Benjamin 1767-1830
- Constantine full name Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus c.274-337 ad
- Cook, Arthur James 1883-1931
- Cook, Captain James 1728-79
- Cook, Peter 1937-94
- Cook, Robin originally Robert Finlayson Cook 1946-2005
- Cooke, (Alfred) Alistair 1908-2004
- Coolidge, (John) Calvin 1872-1933
- Cooper, James Fenimore 1789-1851
- Cooper, William pseudonym of Harry Summerfield Hoff 1910-2002
- Coover, Robert Lowell 1932-
- Cope, Wendy 1945-
- Copland, Aaron 1900-90
- Coppola, Francis Ford 1939-
- Cornford, Frances née Darwin 1886-1960
- Cornforth, Sir John Warcup 1917-2013
- Corwin, Thomas 1794-1865
- Cory, William originally William Johnson 1823-92
- Coryate, Thomas c.1577-1617
- Costello, Elvis real name Declan Patrick McManus 1954-
- Cotman, John Sell 1782-1842
- Coubertin, Pierre de Baron 1863-1937
- Coué, Émile 1857-1926
- Coulter, Ann Hart 1961-
- Coupland, Douglas 1961-
- Cousins, Norman 1915-90
- Cousteau, Jacques Yves 1910-97
- Coventry, Thomas, 1st Baron 1578-1640
- Coward, Sir Noël Peirce 1899-1973
- Cowell, Simon (Phillip) 1959-
- Cowley, Abraham 1618-67
- Cowley, Hannah 1743-1809
- Cowley, Malcolm 1898-1989
- Cowper, William 1731-1800
- Crabbe, George 1754-1832
- Craig, Daniel Wroughton 1968-
- Craik Dinah Maria née Mulock 1826-87
- Crane, (Harold) Hart 1899-1932
- Crane, Stephen 1871-1900
- Cranfield, Ingrid 1945-
- Cranmer, Thomas 1489-1556
- Crashaw, Richard c.1613-1649
- Craster, Mrs Edmund d.1874
- Crawford, Joan originally Lucille Fay le Sueur 1904-77
- Crichton, Michael 1942-2008
- Crick, Francis Harry Compton 1916-2004
- Cripps, Arthur S(hearly) 1869-1952
- Cripps, Sir (Richard) Stafford 1889-1952
- Crisp, Quentin 1908-99
- Critchfield, Richard Patrick 1931-94
- Critchley, Sir Julian Michael Gordon 1930-2000
- Critias c.460-403 bc
- Croker, John Wilson 1780-1857
- Cromer, Evelyn Baring, Earl 1841-1917
- Crompton, Richmal originally Richmal Samuel Lamburn 1890-1969
- Cromwell, Oliver 1599-1658
- Cronenberg, David 1943-
- Cronkite, Walter 1916-2009
- Cronyn, Hume 1911-2003
- Crosby, Bing originally Harry Lillis Crosby 1904-77
- Cross, Henry Douglass 1920-75
- Crossman, Richard Howard Stafford 1907-74
- Crowley, (Edward) Aleister 1875-1947
- Cruyff, Johan 1947-
- Cruz, Sor Juana Inés de la 1651-95
- Cuarón, Alfonso 1961-
- Cullen, Countee 1903-46
- cummings, e e pen name of Edward Estlin Cummings 1894-1962
- Cunningham, Allan 1784-1842
- Cunningham, Roseanna 1951-
- Cuomo, Mario Matthew 1932-2015
- Cupitt, Rev Don 1934-
- Curie, Marie originally Marya Sklodowska 1867-1934
- Curnow, (Thomas) Allen Munro 1911-2001
- Curran, Charles
- Curran, John Philpot 1750-1817
- Currie, Edwina 1946-
- Curtis, Lionel 1872-1955
- Curtis, Richard Whalley Anthony 1956-
- Curtis, Tony pseudonym of Bernie Schwartz 1925-2010
- Curtiz, Michael originally Mihaly Kertesz 1888-1962
- Curzon (of Kedleston), Lord George Nathaniel 1859-1925
- St Cyprian full name Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus c.200-258 AD
- Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien de 1619-55
- d
- Daché, Lilly 1904-89
- Dafoe, John W 1866-1944
- Daily Express
- Daily Mail
- Daily Mirror
- Dalai Lama originally Tenzin Gyatso 1935-
- Dalglish, Kenny 1951-
- Dalí, Salvador 1904-89
- Dallek, Robert 1934-
- Daly, Daniel 1874-1937
- Daly, John 1966-
- Daly, Mary 1928-2010
- St Peter Damian or Pietro Damiani 1007-72
- Damrosch, Walter Johannes 1862-1950
- Dana, Charles Anderson 1819-97
- Danforth, John Claggett 1936-
- Dangarembga, Tsitsi 1959-
- Dangerfield, George 1904-86
- Daniel, Samuel 1562-1619
- Dante Alighieri originally Durante 1265-1321
- Danton, Georges Jacques 1759-94
- Darío, Rubén pseudonym of Félix Rubén García Sarmiento 1867-1916
- Dark, Eleanor née O’Reilly pseudonym Patricia O’Rane 1901-85
- Darman, Richard G(ordon) 1943-2008
- Darnell, Bill c.1940-
- Darrow, Clarence Seward 1857-1938
- Darwin, Charles Robert 1809-82
- Darwin, Sir Francis 1848-1925
- Daugherty, Harry Micajah 1860-1941
- David, Hal 1921-2012
- Davidson, John 1857-1909
- Davie, George Elder 1912-2007
- Davies, (Sarah) Emily 1830-1921
- Davies, Sir John 1569-1626
- Davies, Nigel 1960-
- Davies, Ray(mond Douglas) 1944-
- Davies, Robertson 1913-95
- Davies, Ron(ald) 1946-
- Davies, W(illiam) H(enry) 1871-1940
- da Vinci, Leonardo
- Davis, Adelle 1904-74
- Davis, Bette originally Ruth Elizabeth Davis 1908-89
- Davis, Jefferson 1808-89
- Davis, Miles Dewey III 1926-91
- Davis, Sammy, Jnr 1925-90
- Davis, Steve 1957-
- Davis, Stuart 1894-1964
- Davis, Thomas Osborne 1814-45
- Davison, Emily Wilding 1872-1913
- Dawkins, Richard 1941-
- Day, Clarence Shepard 1874-1935
- Day, Doris originally Doris Kappelhoff 1924-
- Dayan, Moshe 1915-81
- Day-Lewis, Cecil 1904-72
- Dean, John 1938-
- de Beauvoir, Simone 1906-86
- de Bernières, Louis 1954-
- de Botton, Alain 1969-
- Debray, Regis 1941-
- Debussy, Claude Achille 1862-1918
- Decatur, Stephen 1779-1820
- Deedes, William Francis Deedes Baron 1913-2007
- Deffand, Marquise du 1697-1780
- Defoe, Daniel 1660-1731
- De Forest, Lee 1873-1961
- Degas, (Hilaire Germain) Edgar 1834-1917
- de Gaulle, Charles 1890-1970
- DeGeneres, Ellen (Lee) 1958-
- Dekanahwideh fl.c.1450
- Dekker, Thomas c.1570-c.1641
- de Klerk, F(rederik) W(illem) 1936-
- de Kooning, Willem 1904-97
- Delacroix, (Ferdinand Victor) Eugène 1798-1863
- de la Mare, Walter 1873-1956
- Delaney, Shelagh 1939-2011
- DeLillo, Don 1936-
- Delius, Frederick 1862-1934
- Deming, W(illiam) Edwards 1900-93
- Democritus c.460-c.370 bc
- Dempsey, (William Harrison) Jack 1895-1983
- Deneuve, Catherine 1943-
- Dench, Dame Judi(th Olivia) 1934-
- Deng Xiaoping 1904-97
- Denham, Sir John 1615-69
- Deniehy, Daniel Henry 1828-65
- De Niro, Robert 1943-
- Denis, Maurice 1870-1943
- Denman, Thomas, 1st Baron 1779-1854
- Denning, Alfred Thompson, Lord 1899-1999
- Dennis, C(larence Michael) J(ames) 1876-1938
- Dennis, John 1657-1734
- Depp, Johnny (John Christopher) 1963-
- De Quincey, Thomas 1785-1859
- Derby, Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of 1799-1869
- Desai, Anita née Mazumbar 1937-
- Desbiens, Jean-Paul 1927-2006
- Desbordes-Valmore, Marceline 1786-1859
- Descartes, René 1596-1650
- Deschamps, Yvon 1935-
- Destouches, Philippe originally Néricault 1680-1754
- Dettori, Frankie (Lanfranco) 1970-
- De Valera, Éamon 1882-1975
- Devlin, Denis 1908-59
- De Voto, Bernard 1897-1955
- De Vries, Peter 1910-93
- Dewar, Donald Campbell 1937-2000
- Dewey, John 1859-1952
- De Wolfe, Elsie 1865-1950
- Diaghilev, Sergei 1872-1929
- Diana, Princess of Wales 1961-97
- Díaz, Jorge 1930-2007
- Diaz, Porfirio 1830-1915
- Dibdin, Charles 1745-1814
- Dick, Philip K(indred) 1928-82
- Dickens, Charles John Huffam 1812-70
- Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth 1830-86
- Dickinson, John 1732-1808
- Diderot, Denis 1713-84
- Didion, Joan 1934-
- Dietz, Howard 1896-1983
- Dillard, Annie 1945-
- Dillingham, Charles 1868-1934
- Dillon, Wentworth c.1633-1685
- DiMaggio, Joe (Joseph Paul) 1914-99
- Dimbleby, Richard 1913-65
- Dinesen, Isak
- Diogenes of Sinope c.410-c.320 bc
- Dior, Christian 1905-57
- Dirksen, Everett McKinley 1896-1969
- Disch, Thomas M(ichael) 1940-2008
- Diski, Jenny 1947-
- Disney, Walt(er Elias) 1901-66
- Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield 1804-81
- Dobson, (Henry) Austin 1840-1921
- Dobzhansky, Theodosius G 1900-75
- Docherty, Tommy (Thomas Henderson) 1928-
- Doctorow, E(dgar) L(awrence) 1931-
- Dodd, Christopher J 1944-
- Dodd, Ken(neth) 1927-
- Doddridge, Philip 1702-51
- Dole, Bob (Robert Joseph) 1923-
- Dole, Elizabeth Hanford 1936-
- Domínguez Camargo, Hernando 1606-59
- Donaghy, Siobhan 1984-
- Donahue, Phil 1935-
- Donald, David Herbert 1920-2009
- Donleavy, J(ames) P(atrick) 1926-
- Donne, John c.1572-1631
- Donoghue, Denis 1928-
- Donoso, José 1924-96
- Doolittle, James Harold 1896-1993
- Doram-Smith, Sir Reginald Hugh 1899-1977
- Dorgan, Tad (Thomas Aloysius) 1877-1929
- Dos Passos, John Roderigo 1896-1970
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich 1821-81
- Douglas, Lord Alfred Bruce 1870-1945
- Douglas, Charles 1840-74
- Douglas, Gavin c.1474-1522
- Douglas, Keith Castellain 1920-44
- Douglas, (George) Norman 1868-1952
- Douglas, Michael Kirk 1944-
- Douglas, William Orville 1898-1980
- Douglass, Frederick originally Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey 1817-95
- Dove, Rita Frances 1952-
- Dowd, Maureen 1952-
- Dowland, John 1563-1626
- Downey, Dr Richard 1881-1953
- Dowson, Ernest 1867-1900
- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan 1859-1930
- Doyle, Charles (Mike) 1928-
- Doyle, Roddy 1958-
- Drabble, Margaret 1939-
- Drake, Sir Francis c.1540-1596
- Drapeau, Jean 1916-99
- Drayton, Michael 1563-1631
- Drennan, William 1754-1820
- Drescher, Fran(cine Joy) 1957-
- Drexler, Arthur 1925-87
- Driberg, Tom (Thomas Edward Neil), Baron of Bradwell 1905-76
- Drucker, Peter Ferdinand 1909-2005
- Drummond, Thomas 1797-1840
- Dryden, John 1631-1700
- Dubin, Al 1891-1945
- Du Bois W(illiam) E(dward) B(urghardt) 1868-1963
- Du Bos, Jean-Baptiste 1670-1742
- Dudek, Louis 1918-2001
- Duell, Charles H 1850-1920
- Duesenberry, James Stemble 1918-2009
- Duffield, George 1818-88
- Duffy, Dame Carol Ann 1955-
- Dugommier, General Jean François Coquille 1736-94
- Dulles, John Foster 1888-1959
- Dumas, Alexandre, père 1802-70
- Dumas, Alexandre, fils 1824-95
- du Maurier, Dame Daphne 1907-89
- Dunbar, Paul Laurence 1872-1906
- Dunbar, William c.1460-c.1520
- Duncan, Isadora originally Angela Duncan 1878-1927
- Duncan, Robert Edwards originally Edward Howard Duncan 1919-88
- Dunlop, Ian 1925-
- Dunn, Douglas Eaglesham 1942-
- Dunne, Finley Peter 1867-1936
- Dunne, Philip 1908-92
- Dunning, John 1731-1820
- Duplessis, Maurice 1890-1959
- Durant, William James 1885-1981
- Dürer, Albrecht 1471-1528
- Durkheim, Émile 1858-1917
- Durocher, Leo 1906-91
- Durranc, Edouard
- Durrell, Lawrence George 1912-90
- Dürrenmatt, Friedrich 1921-90
- Dury, Ian 1942-2000
- Duvall, Robert 1931-
- Dvorÿák, Antonin 1841-1904
- Dworkin, Andrea 1946-2005
- Dyer, Sir Edward c.1545-1607
- Dylan, Bob pseudonym of Robert Allen Zimmerman 1941-
- Dyson, Freeman J(ohn) 1923-
- Dyson, Will (iam Henry) 1880-1938
- e
- Eagleton, Terry 1943-
- Earhart, Amelia 1897-1937
- Eastwood, Clint 1930-
- Eban, Abba originally Aubrey Solomon 1915-2002
- Ebbinghaus, Hermann 1850-1909
- Eberhart, Richard Ghormley 1904-2005
- Eberts, Jake 1941-2012
- Echeverría, Esteban 1805-51
- Eco, Umberto 1932-
- The Economist
- Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley 1882-1944
- Eddy, Mary Baker 1821-1910
- Eden, Sir (Robert) Anthony, 1st Earl of Avon 1897-1977
- Eden, Lady Clarissa 1920-
- Edgeworth, Maria 1767-1849
- Edinburgh, Prince Philip, Duke of 1921-
- Edison, Thomas Alva 1847-1931
- Edmeston, John 1721-1867
- Edward II 1284-1327
- Edward III 1312-77
- Edward VII 1841-1910
- Edward VIII 1894-1972
- Edwards, Bob (Robert Chambers) 1864-1922
- Edwards, Oliver 1711-91
- Edwards, Otis C(arl) Jr 1928-
- Egan, Pierce 1772-1849
- Eggers, Dave 1970-
- Ehrlich, Paul Ralph 1932-
- Ehrlichman, John 1925-99
- Eichelbaum, Samuel 1894-1969
- Einstein, Albert 1879-1955
- Eisenhower, Dwight D(avid) 1890-1969
- Eisenstaedt, Alfred 1898-1995
- Elgar, Sir Edward 1857-1934
- Elgin, James Bruce 1811-63
- Eliot, George pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans 1819-80
- Eliot, T(homas) S(tearns) 1888-1965
- Elizabeth I 1533-1603
- Elizabeth II 1926-
- Elizabeth, Queen the Queen Mother 1900-2002
- Elkin, Stanley Lawrence 1930-95
- Ellerton, John 1826-93
- Ellington, Duke (Edward Kennedy) 1899-1974
- Elliot, Jean also known as Jane Elliot 1727-1805
- Elliott, Charlotte 1789-1871
- Elliott, Sir Claude Aurelius 1888-1973
- Ellis, George 1753-
- Ellis, Havelock 1859-1939
- Ellison, Harlan Jay 1934-
- Ellison, Ralph Waldo 1914-94
- Ellwood, David T 1953-
- Eltit, Diamela 1949-
- Elton, Ben 1959-
- Elton, Sir Geoffrey Rudolph 1921-94
- Éluard, Paul pseudonym of Eugène Grindel 1895-1952
- Emecheta, Buchi 1944-
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803-82
- Emin, Tracey 1964-
- Emmet, Robert 1778-1803
- Empson, Sir William 1906-84
- Engels, Friedrich 1820-95
- Engle, Paul Hamilton 1908-91
- Ennius, Quintus Ennius c.239-169bc
- Enright, Anne Teresa 1962-
- Enright, D(ennis) J(oseph) 1920-2002
- Ephorus of Cumæ c.400-330 bc
- Ephron, Nora 1941-2012
- Epstein, Jacob 1880-1959
- Epstein, Julius J 1909-2000
- Erasmus, Desiderius originally Gerrit Gerritszoon 1466-1536
- Eriksson, Sven Goran 1948-
- Ernst, Max 1891-1976
- Ertz, Susan pseudonym of Mrs Ronald McCrindle c.1894-1985
- Etherege, Sir George c.1635-1691
- Eubank, Chris 1966-
- Eudamidas 4c bc
- Euripides 480 or 484-406 BC
- Evans, Bergen 1904-78
- Evans, Dame Edith 1888-1976
- Evans, George Essex 1863-1909
- Evans, Walker 1903-75
- Evelyn, John 1620-1706
- Ewart, Gavin Buchanan 1916-95
- Ewer, William Norman 1885-1976
- Ewing, Winnie 1929-
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- Fadiman, Anne 1953-
- Fadiman, Clifton 1904-99
- Falkland, Lucius Cary, Viscount 1610-43
- Faludi, Susan 1960-
- Fanon, Frantz Omar 1925-61
- Fanthorpe, U(rsula) A(skham) 1929-2009
- Farage, Nigel Paul 1964-
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- Farjeon, Herbert 1887-1945
- Farquhar, George c.1677-1707
- Farragut, David Glasgow 1801-70
- Fassbinder, Rainer Werner 1946-82
- Faulkner, William Harrison 1897-1962
- Fauré, Gabriel Urbain 1845-1924
- Favre, Jules Claude Gabriel 1809-80
- Fawcett, Percy Harrison 1867-
- Fawkes, Guy 1570-1606
- Feibleman, Peter 1930-
- Feiffer, Jules 1929-
- Feininger, Lyonel 1871-1956
- Fellini, Federico 1920-93
- Fenton, James 1949-
- Fenwick, Millicent Hammond 1910-93
- Ferber, Edna 1887-1968
- Ferdinand I 1503-64
- Ferguson, Sir Alex 1941-
- Ferguson, Niall 1964-
- Ferguson, Sir Samuel 1810-86
- Fergusson, Robert 1750-74
- Ferlinghetti, Lawrence 1919-
- Fermat, Pierre de 1601-65
- Fermi, Enrico 1901-54
- Fern, Fanny née Willis 1811-72
- Fernández, Macedonio 1874-1952
- Ferré, Rosario 1943-
- Ferrier, Kathleen 1912-53
- Feuerbach, Ludwig 1804-72
- Fey, Tina (Elizabeth Stamatina) 1970-
- Feynman, Richard P(hillips) 1918-88
- Fiedler, Leslie A(aron) 1917-92
- Field, Barron 1786-1846
- Field, Eugene 1850-95
- Field, Frank 1942-
- Field, Sally Margaret 1946-
- Fielding, Henry 1707-54
- Fields, Dorothy 1905-74
- Fields, W C originally William Claude Dukenfield 1880-1946
- Fiennes, Ralph Nathaniel 1962-
- Fiennes, Sir Ranulph 1944-
- Fierstein, Harvey Forbes 1954-
- Findley, Timothy 1931-2002
- Firbank, (Arthur Annesley) Ronald 1886-1926
- Firth, Colin 1960-
- Fish, Michael 1944-
- Fisher (of Lambeth) Geoffrey Francis Fisher Baron 1887-1972
- Fisher, H(erbert) A(lbert) L(aurens) 1865-1940
- Fisher, M(ary) F(rances) K(ennedy) 1908-92
- Fiske, John 1842-1901
- Fitt, Gerry (Gerard) Fitt Baron 1926-2005
- Fitzgerald, Edward 1809-83
- Fitzgerald, F(rancis) Scott Key 1896-1940
- Fitzgerald, Penelope Mary 1916-2000
- Flanagan, Bud stage name of Robert Winthrop 1896-1968
- Flanders, Michael and Swann, Donald 1922-75,
- Flaubert, Anne Justine Caroline 1793-1872
- Flaubert, Gustave 1821-80
- Flecker, James Elroy 1884-1915
- Fleming, Ian Lancaster 1908-64
- Fleming, Marjory 1803-11
- Fletcher (of Saltoun) Andrew 1655-1716
- Fletcher, John 1579-1625
- Florio, John c.1553-1625
- Flynn, Errol 1909-59
- Flynt, Larry Claxton 1942-
- Fo, Dario 1926-
- Foch, Ferdinand 1851-1929
- Follett, Ken 1949-
- Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de 1657-1757
- Foot, Michael Mackintosh 1913-2010
- Foote, Samuel 1720-77
- Forbes, (Malcolm Stevenson) ‘Steve’ Jr 1947-
- Ford, Anna 1943-
- Ford, Ford Madox originally Ford Hermann Hueffer 1873-1939
- Ford, Henry 1863-1947
- Ford, Henry 1917-87
- Ford, John c.1586-c.1640
- Ford, Lena Guilbert 1870-1916
- Ford, Richard 1944-
- Ford, Rob(ert Bruce) 1969-
- Foreman, George 1949-
- Forgy, Howell Maurice 1908-83
- Formby, George 1904-61
- Forster, E(dward) M(organ) 1879-1970
- Foster, Sir George 1847-1931
- Foster, Stephen Collins 1826-64
- Foster, Vince(nt W) Jr 1945-93
- Foucault, Michel 1926-84
- Fowles, John Robert 1926-2005
- Fox, Charles James 1749-1806
- Fox, George 1624-91
- Fox, Michael J. originally Michael Andrew Fox 1961-
- Frame, Janet Paterson also known as Jean Paterson Frame 1924-2004
- France, Anatole pseudonym of Jacques Anatole François Thibault 1844-1924
- Pope Francis originally Jorge Mario Bergoglio 1936-
- Francis I 1494-1547
- St Francis of Assisi c.1181-1226
- Francis, Dick (Richard Stanley) 1920-2010
- Frank, Anne 1929-45
- Frankenthaler, Helen 1928-2011
- Franklin, Benjamin 1706-90
- Franklin, (Stella Marian Sarah) Miles pseudonym Brent of Bin Bin 1879-1954
- Franz Josef I 1830-1916
- Franzen, Jonathan 1959-
- Fraser, Lady Antonia 1932-
- Fraser, George MacDonald 1925-2008
- Fraser, Major Sir Keith Alexander 1867-1935
- Fraser, (John) Malcolm 1930-2015
- Frayne, Trent 1918-2012
- Frederick II 1194-1250
- Frederick II, the Great 1712-86
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- Freeman, Bud (Lawrence) 1906-91
- Freeman, Edward Augustus 1823-92
- Freeman, John 1880-1929
- Freleng, Friz born Isadore Freleng 1905-95
- French, Marilyn 1929-2009
- Freud, Sir Clement 1924-2009
- Freud, Sigmund 1856-1939
- Friday, Nancy 1937-
- Friedan, Betty (Elizabeth) Naomi née Goldstein 1921-2006
- Friedman, Kinky (Richard Samet) 1944-
- Friedman, Milton 1912-2006
- Friedrich, Carl J(oachim) 1901-84
- Friedrich, Caspar David 1774-1840
- Friel, Brian 1929-
- Frisch, Max Rudolph 1911-91
- Frohman, Charles 1860-1915
- Fromm, Erich 1900-80
- Frost, Robert Lee 1874-1963
- Froude, James Anthony 1818-94
- Fry, C(harles) B(urgess) 1872-1956
- Fry, Christopher pseudonym of Christopher Harris 1907-2005
- Fry, Elizabeth 1780-1845
- Fry, Roger Eliot 1866-1934
- Fry, Stephen John 1957-
- Frye, Northrop 1912-91
- Fuentes, Carlos 1928-2012
- Fulbright, J(ames) William 1905-95
- Fulford, Robert 1932-
- Fuller, (Sarah) Margaret, Marchioness Ossoli 1810-50
- Fuller, Peter 1947-90
- Fuller, R(ichard) Buckminster 1895-1983
- Fuller, Roy Broadbent 1912-91
- Fuller, Thomas 1608-61
- Fuller, Thomas 1654-1734
- Furthman, Jules 1888-1966
- Fuseli, Henry 1741-1825
- Fyffe, Will 1885-1947
- Fyleman, Rose 1877-1957
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- Gabor, Dennis 1900-79
- Gabor, Zsa Zsa 1919-
- Gaga, Lady pseudonym of Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta 1986-
- Gagarin, Yuri A(lekseyevich) 1934-68
- Gainsborough, Thomas 1727-88
- Gaitskell, Hugh 1906-63
- Galbraith, John Kenneth 1908-2006
- Galeano, Eduardo 1940-
- Galen or Claudius Galenus c.130- c.201ad
- Galilei, Galileo 1564-1642
- Gallagher, Noel 1967-
- Gallico, Paul William 1897-1976
- Galloway, George 1954-
- Galloway, Janice 1955-
- Gallup, George Horace 1901-84
- Galsworthy, John 1867-1933
- Galt, John 1779-1839
- Galtieri, Leopoldo Fortunato 1926-2003
- Galton, Sir Francis 1822-1911
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- Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand known as Mahatma [great soul] 1869-1948
- Gandhi, Sonia 1946-
- Garbo, Greta pseudonym of Greta Lovisa Gustafsson 1905-90
- García Márquez, Gabriel 1927-2014
- Garcilaso de la Vega, Inca 1539-1616
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- Garibaldi, Giuseppe 1807-82
- Garland, (Hannibal) Hamlin 1860-1940
- Garner, Eric (1970-2014)
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- Garrick, David 1717-79
- Garvey, Marcus 1887-1940
- Gaskell, Mrs Elizabeth Cleghorn née Stevenson 1810-65
- Gass, William H(oward) 1924-
- Gates, Bill (William Henry III) 1955-
- Gates, Robert Michael 1943-
- Gauguin, Paul 1848-1903
- Gautier, Théophile 1811-72
- Gavarni real name Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier 1804-88
- Gay, James 1810-91
- Gay, John 1685-1732
- Gay, Noel pseudonym of Richard Moxon Armitage 1898-1954
- Geddes, Sir Eric Campbell 1875-1937
- Gee, Maggie 1948-
- Geldof, Bob 1954-
- Gellhorn, Martha Ellis 1908-98
- Gell-Mann, Murray 1929-
- Genet, Jean 1910-86
- Genghis Khan originally Temujin c.1167-1227
- Geoffrey de Breteuil fl.12c
- George I 1660-1727
- George II 1683-1760
- George III 1738-1820
- George V 1865-1936
- George VI 1895-1952
- George, Chief Dan 1899-1981
- George, Daniel pseudonym of Daniel George Bunting 1890 -1967
- Geracimos, Ann
- Gerald of Wales also called Giraldus Cambrensis c.1146-c.1223
- Gerbert later Pope Sylvester II 940-1003
- Gergen, David Richmond 1942-
- Gerhardie, William Alexander 1895-1977
- Gershwin, George 1898-1937
- Gershwin, Ira originally Israel Gershowitz 1896-1983
- Gervais, Ricky 1961-
- Getty, Jean Paul 1892-1976
- Giacosa, Giuseppe 1847-1906
- Gibbon, Edward 1737-94
- Gibbon, Lewis Grassic 1901-35
- Gibbons, Kaye 1960-
- Gibbons, Orlando 1583-1625
- Gibbons, Stella Dorothea 1902-89
- Gibbs, Wolcott 1902-58
- Gibran, Kahlil 1883-1931
- Gibson, Wilfred Wilson 1878-1962
- Gibson, William Ford 1948-
- Gide, André Paul Guillaume 1869-1951
- Gielgud, Sir (Arthur) John 1904-2000
- Gilbert, Sir Humphrey 1537-83
- Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) 1836-1911
- Gill, Brendan 1914-97
- Gill, (Arthur) Eric Rowton 1882-1940
- Gillespie, Dizzy (John Birks) 1917-93
- Gillette, King Camp 1855-1932
- Gilliam, Terry (Terence Vance) 1940-
- Gilligan, Andrew 1968-
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- Gilmour of Craigmillar Ian Gilmour Baron 1926-2007
- Gingold, Hermione 1897-1987
- Gingrich, Newt(on Leroy) 1943-
- Ginsberg, Allen 1926-97
- Giovanni, Nikki in full Yolande Cornelia Giovanni, Jr 1943-
- Gipp, George 1895-1920
- Giraudoux, (Hippolyte) Jean 1882-1944
- Girondo, Oliverio 1891-1967
- Giscard d’Estaing, Valéry 1926-
- Gitlin, Todd 1943-
- Giuliani, Rudy (Rudolph William) 1944-
- Gladstone, W(illiam) E(wart) 1809-98
- Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson 1874-1945
- Gleick, James 1954-
- Glen, Iain 1961-
- Glennie, Dame Evelyn 1965-
- Gloucester, William Henry, 1st Duke of 1743-1805
- Godard, Jean-Luc 1930-
- Goebbels, (Paul) Joseph 1897-1945
- Goering, Hermann Wilhelm 1893-1946
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 1749-1832
- Goheen, Robert F(rancis) 1919-2008
- Golding, Sir William (Gerald) 1911-93
- Goldman, William 1931-
- Goldmark, Peter Carl Jr 1940-
- Goldsmith, Oliver 1728-74
- Goldwater, Barry M(orris) 1909-98
- Goldwyn, Sam(uel) originally Schmuel Gelbfisz 1882-1974
- Gomez, Vernon Louis known as ‘Lefty’ 1908-89
- Goncharov, Ivan Alexandrovich 1812-91
- Gonne, Maud 1865-1953
- González Prada, Manuel 1848-1918
- Gooch, George Peabody 1873-1968
- Goodall, John 1863-1942
- Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich 1931-
- Gordon, Adam Lindsay 1833-70
- Gordon, Mack 1904-59
- Gordon, Ruth 1896-1985
- Gore, Al(bert, Jr) 1948-
- Gorman, Dave 1971-
- Gorostiza, José 1901-73
- Gorostiza, Manuel Eduardo de 1789-1851
- Gosse, Sir Edmund 1849-1928
- Gottfried von Strassburg fl.c.1200
- Gottlieb, Adolph 1903-74
- Gould, Glenn 1932-82
- Gould of Brookwood Philip Gould Baron 1950-2011
- Gould, Stephen Jay 1941-2002
- Gounod, Charles François 1818-93
- Gourmont, Rémy de 1858-1915
- Gowers, Sir Ernest Arthur 1880-1966
- Goya, Francisco de 1746-1828
- Grace, W(illiam) G(ilbert) 1848-1915
- Graham, Harry 1874-1936
- Grahame, Kenneth 1859-1932
- Gramm, Phil (William Philip) 1942-
- Grand, Sarah pseudonym of Frances Elizabeth McFall née Clarke 1854-1943
- Grant, Cary pseudonym of Archibald Leach 1904-86
- Grant, George P 1918-88
- Grant, Hugh 1960-
- Grant, Sir Robert 1779-1838
- Grant, Ulysses S(impson) 1822-85
- Grass, Günter Wilhelm 1927-
- Grattan, Henry 1746-1820
- Graves, Robert von Ranke 1895-1985
- Gray, Alasdair James 1934-
- Gray, Alexander 1882-1968
- Gray, Thomas 1716-71
- Greeley, Horace 1811-72
- Greenaway, Peter 1942-
- Greenberg, Clement 1909-94
- Greene, (Henry) Graham 1904-91
- Greene, Robert 1558-92
- Greenspan, Alan 1926-
- Greer, Germaine 1939-
- Pope Gregory I known as ‘the Great’ 540-604
- Pope Gregory VII also known as Hildebrand c.1020-1085
- Gregory, Lady Isabella Augusta née Persse 1852-1932
- Gregory, John Walter 1864-1932
- Grellet, Stephen 1773-1855
- Grenfell, Joyce née Phipps 1910-79
- Grenfell, Julian Henry Francis 1888-1915
- Grenfell, Sir Wilfred 1865-1940
- Grenville, George 1712-70
- Grey of Fallodon Edward Grey, 1st Viscount 1862-1933
- Greyser, Stephen A
- Grieg, Edvard Hagerup 1843-1907
- Griffith, D(avid Lewelyn) W(ark) 1874-1948
- Griffiths, Richard 1947-2013
- Grillparzer, Franz 1791-1872
- Grimaldi, Joseph 1779-1837
- Grisham, John 1955-
- Griswold, Alfred Whitney 1906-63
- Gromyko, Andrei Andreyevich 1909-89
- Grossmith, George 1847-1912
- Grosvenor, Gilbert M 1875-1966
- Guare, John 1938-
- Guedalla, Philip 1889-1944
- Guibert of Nogent fl.c.1097
- Guillén, Nicolás 1902-89
- Guimarães Rosa, João 1908-67
- Guiraldes, Ricardo 1886-1927
- Guitry, Sacha 1885-1957
- Gulbenkian, Nubar Sarkis 1896-1972
- Gullit, Ruud 1962-
- Gunn, Jeannie known as Mrs Aeneas Gunn 1870-1961
- Gunn, Thom(son William) 1929-2004
- Gunther, John 1901-70
- Gurney, Dorothy Frances 1858-1932
- Gurney, Ivor 1890-1937
- Gurney, John Hampden 1802-62
- Gustavus II (Adolphus) 1594-1632
- Guston, Philip 1913-80
- Guthrie, Woody (Woodrow Wilson) 1912-67
- Guy, Ray 1939-2013
- Gwyn, Nell 1650-87
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- Haas, Ernst 1921-86
- Habington, William 1605-54
- Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich 1834-1919
- Hagen, Walter 1892-1969
- Haggai, Thomas 1939-
- Haggard, Sir (Henry) Rider 1856-1925
- Hague, William 1961-
- Haig, Alexander Meigs Jr 1924-2010
- Haig (of Bemersyde) Douglas Haig, 1st Earl 1861-1928
- Haile Selassie originally Prince Ras Tafari Makonnen 1891-1975
- Hailsham, Quintin (McGarel) Hogg, 2nd Viscount 1907-2001
- Halberstam, David 1934-2007
- Haldane, J(ohn) B(urdon) S(anderson) 1892-1964
- Hale, Nathan 1755-76
- Hale, Robert Beverly 1901-85
- Hale, Sarah Josepha née Buell 1788-1879
- Hales, Stephen 1677-1761
- Haliburton, Thomas Chandler 1796-1865
- Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of 1881-1959
- Halifax, George Savile, 1st Marquis of 1633-95
- Hall, Charles 1745-1825
- Hall, J(oyce) C(lyde) 1891-1982
- Halliwell, Geri 1972-
- Halsey, W(illiam) F(rederick) known as ‘Bull’ Halsey 1882-1959
- Hamer, Robert 1911-63
- Hamilton, Alexander c.1755-1804
- Hamilton, Edith 1867-1963
- Hamilton, (Robert) Ian 1938-2001
- Hammarskjöld, Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl 1905-61
- Hammer, Armand 1898-1990
- Hammerstein, Oscar, II 1895-1960
- Hammett, (Samuel) Dashiell 1894-1961
- Hampton, Christopher James 1946-
- Hancock, Lang(ley George) 1909-92
- Hand, (Billings) Learned 1872-1961
- Handel, George Frideric 1685-1759
- Handy, Charles Brian 1932-
- Hankey, Katherine 1834-1911
- Hanks, Tom (Thomas Jeffrey) 1956-
- Hansberry, Lorraine Vivian 1930-65
- Harburg, E(dgar) Y(ip) 1898-1981
- Hardie, (James) Keir 1856-1915
- Hardie, Robert 1904-73
- Harding, Warren G(amaliel) 1865-1923
- Hardwicke, Sir Cedric 1893-1964
- Hardy, Godfrey Harold 1877-1947
- Hardy, Oliver originally Norvell Hardy Jr 1892-1957
- Hardy, Thomas 1840-1928
- Harington, Sir John 1561-1612
- Harkin, Tom (Thomas) 1939-
- Harkness, Richard Long 1907-77
- Harlech William David Ormsby Gore, 5th Baron 1918-85
- Harlow, Jean pseudonym of Harlean Carpentier 1911-37
- Harman, Harriet Ruth 1950-
- Harold II c.1019-1066
- Harpur, Charles 1813-68
- Harrington, James 1611-77
- Harrington, Michael 1928-89
- Harris, Joel Chandler 1848-1908
- Harris, Robert 1957-
- Harris, Sir (Theodore) Wilson pseudonym of Kona Waruk 1921-
- Harrison, Tony 1937-
- Harrison, Wallace K(irkman) 1895-1981
- Harrod, Sir Roy 1900-78
- Harry (Henry Charles Albert David), Prince of Wales 1984-
- Hart, Gary originally Gary Hartpence 1936-
- Hart, Ian 1964-
- Hart, Lorenz 1895-1943
- Hart, Moss 1904-61
- Harte, (Francis) Bret 1836-1902
- Hartley, L(eslie) P(oles) 1895-1972
- Harvey, P(olly) J(ean) 1969-
- Harvey, William 1578-1657
- Harvey-Jones, Sir John 1924-2008
- Haskell, Molly 1939-
- Haskins, Minnie Louise 1875-1951
- Hattersley, Roy Sydney George Hattersley Baron 1932-
- Haughey, Charles James 1925-2006
- Havel, Václav 1936-2011
- Hawes, Hampton 1928-77
- Hawking, Stephen William 1942-
- Hawthorn, Mike 1929-59
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804-64
- Hay, Ian pseudonym of Major-General John Hay Beith 1876-1952
- Hayakawa, S(amuel) I(chiye) 1906-92
- Haydn, Franz Joseph 1732-1809
- Haydon, Benjamin Robert 1786-1846
- Hayek, Friedrich August von 1899-1992
- Hayes, J Milton 1884-1940
- Hayes, Rutherford B(irchard) 1822-93
- Hayward, Thomas Bibb 1924-
- Hazlitt, William 1778-1830
- Hazzard, Shirley 1931-
- Head, Bessie 1937-86
- Healey, Denis Winston Healey Baron 1917-
- Heaney, Seamus Justin 1939-2013
- Hearst, William Randolph 1863-1951
- Heath, Sir Edward Richard George also called Ted 1916-2005
- Heat-Moon, William Least originally William Trogdon 1939-
- Hebbel, Friedrich 1813-63
- Heber, Reginald 1783-1826
- Hecht, Ben 1894-1964
- Hedin, Sven Anders 1865-1952
- Heffer, Simon 1960-
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 1770-1831
- Heidegger, Martin 1889-1976
- Heifetz, Jascha 1901-87
- Heine, Heinrich 1797-1856
- Heinse, Wilhelm 1746-1803
- Heisenberg, Werner 1901-76
- Heller, Joseph 1923-99
- Heller, Walter Wolfgang 1915-87
- Hellman, Lillian Florence 1907-84
- Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von 1821-94
- Helmsley, Leona (Mindy) née Rosenthal 1920-2007
- Héloïse 1101-64
- Helpmann, Sir Robert Murray 1909-86
- Hemans, Felicia née Browne 1793-1835
- Hemingway, Ernest Millar 1899-1961
- Hempstone, Smith 1929-2006
- Henderson, Leon 1895-1986
- Henderson, Sir Nevile Meyrick 1882-1942
- Hendrix, Jimi (James Marshall) 1942-70
- Henley, W(illiam) E(rnest) 1849-1903
- Henri, Adrian Maurice 1932-2000
- Henry II 1133-89
- Henry V 1387-1422
- Henry VIII 1491-1547
- Henry, Philip 1631-96
- Henry, Thierry 1977-
- Henryson, Robert c.1425-c.1508
- Henze, Hans Werner 1926-2012
- Hepburn, Katharine 1907-2003
- Hepworth, Dame Barbara 1903-75
- Heraclitus fl.500 bc
- Herbert, Sir A(lan) P(atrick) 1890-1971
- Herbert, George 1593-1633
- Herbert, Xavier 1901-84
- Herfindahl, Orris C 1918-72
- Hernández, Felisberto 1902-64
- Hernández, José 1834-86
- Herodotus c.485 bc-c.425 bc
- Herr, Michael 1940-
- Herrick, Robert 1591-1674
- Herriot, James pseudonym of James Alfred Wight 1916-95
- Hersey, John Richard 1914-93
- Herzen, Alexander Ivanovich 1812-70
- Herzl, Theodor 1860-1904
- Herzog, Maurice 1919-2012
- Heseltine, Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine Baron 1933-
- Hess, Moses 1812-75
- Heston, Charlton 1923-2008
- Hewart, Gordon Hewart, Ist Viscount 1870-1943
- Hewett, Dorothy Coade later Davies and Lilley 1923-2002
- Hewlett, Sylvia Ann 1946-
- Heyerdahl, Thor 1914-2002
- Heyward, Du Bose 1885-1940
- Heywood, Thomas c.1574-1641
- Hicks, Sir Edward Seymour 1871-1949
- Hicks, Sir John Richard 1904-89
- Hickson, William Eward 1803-70
- Highfield, Roger 1958-
- Higley, Brewster Martin 1823-1911
- Hill, (Norman) Graham 1929-75
- Hill, Joe originally Joel Hägglund 1879-1915
- Hill, Rowland 1744-1833
- Hillaby, John 1917-96
- Hillary, Sir Edmund Percival 1919-2008
- Hillebrand, Fred 1893-1963
- Hillingdon, Lady Alice 1857-1940
- Hilton, James 1900-54
- Hindemith, Paul 1895-1963
- Hippocrates c.460 bc-c.370 bc
- Hirohito 1901-89
- Hirsch, E(ric) D(onald) Jr 1928-
- Hirschfeld, Al(bert) 1903-2003
- Hirst, Damien 1965-
- Hitchcock, Sir Alfred Joseph 1899-1980
- Hitchens, Christopher Eric 1949-2011
- Hitchens, Peter Jonathan 1951-
- Hitler, Adolf 1889-1945
- Hobbes, Thomas 1588-1679
- Hobhouse, John Cam, 1st Baron Broughton 1786-1869
- Hobsbawm, Eric (John Ernest) 1917-2012
- Hobson, John Atkinson 1858-1940
- Hoby, Sir Edward 1560-1617
- Ho Chi Minh originally Nguyen That Thanh 1892-1969
- Hockney, David 1937-
- Hodges, Andrew 1949-
- Hodgson, Ralph 1871-1962
- Hoffer, Eric 1902-83
- Hoffman, Abbie 1936-89
- Hoffman, Dustin 1937-
- Hoffman, Hans 1880-1966
- Hoffmann, Heinrich 1809-94
- Hofstadter, Douglas R(ichard) 1945-
- Hofstadter, Richard 1916-70
- Hogarth, William 1697-1764
- Hogg, James 1770-1835
- Hoggart, Simon David 1946-2014
- Holiday, Billie 1915-59
- Holland, Henry Scott 1847-1918
- Hollander, Anne 1930-2014
- Hollinghurst, Alan 1954-
- Holman, James 1786-1857
- Holme (of Cheltenham) Richard Holme, Baron 1936-2008
- Holmes, John Clellon 1926-88
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell 1809-94
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell Jr 1841-1935
- Holroyd, Sir Michael de Courcy Fraser 1935-
- Holst, Gustav Theodore 1874-1934
- Holt, Harold Edward 1908-67
- Holub, Miroslav 1923-98
- Homans, George C 1910-89
- Home of the Hirsel Alec (Alexander Frederick) Douglas-Home Baron 1903-95
- Homer 8c bc
- Homer, Winslow 1836-1910
- Honegger, Arthur 1892-1955
- Honorius of Autun fl.1106-35
- Hood, Thomas 1799-1845
- Hooker, Richard 1554-1600
- Hoover, Herbert Clark 1874-1964
- Hoover, J(ohn) Edgar 1895-1972
- Hope, A(lec) D(erwent) 1907-2000
- Hope, Anthony pseudonym of Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins 1863-1933
- Hope, Bob originally Leslie Townes Hope 1903-2003
- Hopkins, Sir Anthony 1937-
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley 1844-89
- Hopkins, J Castell 1864-1923
- Hopper, Edward 1882-1967
- Hopper, Grace Murray 1906-92
- Horace full name Quintus Horatius Flaccus 65 bc-8 bc
- Horner, Jack (John R) 1946-
- Hornung, E(rnest) W(illiam) 1866-1921
- Horsley, Samuel 1733-1806
- Hoskins, Bob 1942-2014
- Hosseini, Khaled 1965-
- Houllier, Gerard 1947-
- Housman, A(lfred) E(dward) 1859-1936
- How, William Walsham 1823-97
- Howard, Thomas, Earl of Surrey and 2nd Duke of Norfolk 1443-1524
- Howe (of Aberavon) (Richard Edward) Geoffrey Howe Baron 1926-
- Howe, Gordie (Gordon) 1928-
- Howe, Joseph 1804-73
- Howe, Julia Ward 1819-1910
- Howe, Louis McHenry 1871-1936
- Hoyle, Edmond 1672-1769
- Hoyle, Sir Fred 1915-2001
- Hubbard, Elbert Green 1856-1915
- Hubble, Edwin Powell 1889-1953
- Hügel, Friedrich von Baron 1852-1925
- Hugh of St Victor c.1096-1141
- Hughes, Howard Robard 1905-76
- Hughes, (James Mercer) Langston 1902-67
- Hughes, Richard Arthur Warren 1900-76
- Hughes, Robert Studley Forrest 1938-2012
- Hughes, Ted (Edward James) 1930-98
- Hughes, Thomas 1822-96
- Hughes, William Morris 1864-1952
- Hugo, Victor Marie 1802-85
- Huidobro, Vicente 1893-1948
- Humboldt, Alexander, Baron von 1769-1859
- Hume, David 1711-76
- Humphrey, Hubert Horatio 1911-78
- Humphries, (John) Barry 1934-
- Humphry, Derek 1930-
- Humphrys, John 1943-
- Hunt, G W 1829-1904
- Hunt, Johnnie B(ryan) 1927-2006
- Hunt, Lamar 1932-2006
- Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh 1784-1859
- Hunt, Sir Rex 1926-2012
- Hunter, William 1718-83
- Hupfeld, Herman 1894-1951
- Hurt, Sir John Vincent 1940-
- Hussein, ibn Talal 1935-99
- Hussein, Saddam 1937-2006
- Huston, John 1906-87
- Hutchens, John Kennedy 1905-95
- Hutcheson, Francis 1694-1746
- Hutchins, Robert M 1899-1977
- Huxley, Aldous Leonard 1894-1963
- Huxley, Sir Julian Sorell 1887-1975
- Huxley, T(homas) H(enry) 1825-95
- Huxtable, Ada Louise née Landman c.1921-2013
- Hyde, Robin pseudonym of Iris Guiver Wilkinson 1906-39
- Hyde-White, Wilfred 1903-91
- Hynde, Chrissie 1951-
- Hytner, Sir Nicholas 1956-
- i
- Iacocca, Lee (Lido Anthony) 1924-
- Ibarruri Gomez, Dolores known as La Pasionaria 1895-1989
- Ibn Battutah 1304-68
- Ibsen, Henrik Johan 1828-1906
- I Ching c.2000 bc
- Ignatieff, Michael 1947-
- Ignatow, David 1914-97
- Ihimaera, Witi Tame 1944-
- Illich, Ivan 1926-2002
- Independent on Sunday
- Inge, William Ralph 1860-1954
- Ingersoll, Robert 1833-99
- Ingham, Sir Bernard 1932-
- Ingram, John Kells 1823-1907
- Ingrams, Richard Reid 1937-
- Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique 1780-1867
- Innis, Harold Adams 1894-1952
- Pope Innocent III originally Lotario de’ Conti di Segni 1160-1216
- Inouye, Daniel Ken 1924-2012
- Ionesco, Eugène 1912-94
- Irigaray, Luce 1930-
- Irving, Washington 1783-1859
- Isaacs, Jorge 1837-95
- Isaacson, Walter Seff 1952-
- Isherwood, Christopher William Bradshaw 1904-86
- Ishiguro, Kazuo 1954-
- Issigonis, Sir Alec (Alexander Arnold Constantine) 1906-88
- Ito, Lance Allan 1950-
- Ivan IV known as Ivan the Terrible 1530-84
- Iverson, Allen 1975-
- Ives, Charles Edward 1874-1954
- Izzard, Eddie 1962-
- j
- Jackson, Jesse Louis 1941-
- Jackson, Peter 1961-
- Jackson, Robert Houghwout 1892-1954
- Jacobs, Andrew, Jr 1932-2013
- Jacobs, Herman
- Jacobs, Joe 1896-1940
- Jacobs, W(illiam) W(ymark) 1863-1943
- Jagger, Sir Mick and Richards, Keith 1943-, 1943-
- James I 1394-1437
- James IV 1473-1513
- James V 1512-42
- James, Alice 1848-92
- James, Clive Vivian Leopold 1939-
- James, C(yril) L(ionel) R(obert) 1901-89
- James, E. L. pseudonym of Erika Leonard 1963-
- James, Henry 1843-1916
- James (of Holland Park) P(hyllis) D(orothy) James Baroness 1920-2014
- James, William 1842-1910
- Janeway, Elizabeth Hall 1913-2005
- Janowitz, Tama 1957-
- Jarrell, Randall 1914-65
- Jarry, Alfred 1873-1907
- Jason, Sir David 1940-
- Jaurès, (Auguste Marie Joseph) Jean 1859-1914
- Jay, Sir Antony Rupert 1930-
- Jay (of Paddington) Margaret Jay Baroness 1939-
- Jay, Peter 1937-
- Jeffers, (John) Robinson 1887-1962
- Jefferson, Thomas 1743-1826
- Jeffrey, Lord Francis 1773-1850
- Jenkins, David Edward 1925-
- Jenkins (of Hillhead), Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron 1920-2003
- Jensen, Albert D
- Jerome, Jerome K(lapka) 1859-1927
- Jerome, William 1865-1932
- Jerrold, Douglas William 1803-57
- Jevons, William Stanley 1835-82
- Jiang Qing or Chiang Ch’ing 1914-91
- St Joan of Arc 1412-31
- Jobs, Steve (Steven Paul) 1955-2011
- Joel, Billy 1949-
- Johansson, Scarlett 1984-
- Pope John XXIII originally Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli 1881-1963
- St John of the Cross originally Juan de Yepes y Álvarez 1542-91
- John III Sobieski of Poland 1624-96
- Pope John Paul II originally Karol Jozef Wojtyła 1920-2005
- John, Sir Elton Hercules originally Reginald Kenneth Dwight 1947-
- John, Gwen 1876-1939
- Johns, Jasper 1930-
- Johnson, Ben 1961-
- Johnson, Boris 1964-
- Johnson, Claudia Alta Taylor known as Lady Bird 1912-2007
- Johnson, Earvin (‘Magic’) 1959-
- Johnson, Hiram Warren 1866-1945
- Johnson, Lindley
- Johnson, Lyndon B(aines) also called LBJ 1908-73
- Johnson, Michael 1967-
- Johnson, Paul 1928-
- Johnson, Pauline 1861-1913
- Johnson, Philander Chase 1866-1939
- Johnson, Philip Cortelyou 1906-2005
- Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson 1709-84
- Johnston, Brian 1912-94
- Johst, Hanns 1890-1978
- Jolie, Angelina born Angelina Jolie Voight 1975-
- Jolson, Al pseudonym of Asa Yoelson 1886-1950
- Jonas, George 1935-
- Jones, Bobby (Robert Tyre) 1902-71
- Jones, Henry Arthur 1851-1929
- Jones, James 1921-77
- Jones, John Paul 1747-92
- Jones, Quincy Delight 1933-
- Jones, Rev. Tim 1967-
- Jones, Tom 1940-
- Jones, Tommy Lee 1946-
- Jong, Erica née Mann 1942-
- Jonson, Ben 1572-1637
- Joplin, Janis 1943-70
- Jordan, June 1936-2002
- Jordan, Michael 1963-
- Jordan, Neil 1950-
- Joseph II 1741-90
- Joseph of Exeter fl.12c
- Josephus, Flavius ad 37-100
- Jourdan, Louis originally Louis Gendre 1921-2015
- Jouvet, Louis 1887-1951
- Jovanovich, William 1920-2001
- Jowell, Dame Tessa 1947-
- Jowett, Benjamin 1817-93
- Joyce, James Augustine Aloysius 1882-1941
- Joyce, Nora 1884-1951
- Joyce, William known as Lord Haw Haw 1906-46
- Julian of Norwich known as Lady Julian c.1342-1416
- Jumblatt, Walid 1949-
- Juncker, Jean-Claude 1954-
- Jung, Carl Gustav 1875-1961
- ‘Junius’ possibly the pseudonym of Sir Philip Francis (1740-1818)
- Just, Ward Swift 1935-
- Justinian I ad 482-565
- Juvenal full name Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis c.55-c.140 ad
- k
- Kael, Pauline 1919-2001
- Kafka, Franz 1883-1924
- Kahn, Gus 1886-1941
- Kaiko, Takeshi 1930-89
- Kames, Henry Home Lord 1696-1782
- Kandinsky, Wassily 1866-1944
- Kant, Immanuel 1724-1804
- Kapitsa, Peter Leonidovich 1894-1984
- Kapoor, Sir Anish 1954-
- Karloff, Boris originally William Henry Pratt 1887-1969
- Karpov, Anatoly 1951-
- Karr, Alphonse 1808-90
- Karsh, Yousuf 1908-2002
- Karzai, Hamid 1957-
- Kaufman, George S(imon) 1889-1961
- Kaufman, Sir Gerald 1930-
- Kaufmann, Christoph 1753-95
- Kaunitz-Rietberg, Wenzel Anton, Prince von 1711-94
- Kavanagh, P(atrick) J(oseph Gregory) 1931-
- Kazantzakis, Nikos 1883-1957
- Kazin, Alfred 1915-98
- Keane, Roy 1971-
- Keating, Paul John 1944-
- Keats, John 1795-1821
- Keble, John 1792-1866
- Keenan, Brian 1950-
- Keillor, (Gary Edward) Garrison 1942-
- Keller, Helen Adams 1880-1968
- Kelman, James 1946-
- Kelvin, William Thomson, 1st Baron 1824-1907
- Kemble, Charles 1775-1854
- Kemble, John Philip 1757-1823
- Kempis, St Thomas à c.1380-1471
- Ken, Thomas 1637-1711
- Kendall, Henry Clarence 1839-82
- Kennan, George Frost 1904-2005
- Kennedy, A(lison) L(ouise) 1965-
- Kennedy, Edward M(oore) 1932-2009
- Kennedy, John F(itzgerald) 1917-63
- Kennedy, Joseph Patrick 1888-1969
- Kennedy, Joseph P(atrick) II 1952-
- Kennedy, Nigel 1956-
- Kennedy, Robert F(rancis) 1925-68
- Kennedy, Roger George 1926-2011
- Kennedy, William (Joseph) 1928-
- Kent, Bruce 1929-
- Kent, Corita known as ‘Sister Corita’ 1918-86
- Kent, Rockwell 1882-1971
- Kerouac, Jack (John) 1922-69
- Kerr, Jean née Collins 1923-2003
- Kerry, John F 1943-
- Kesey, Ken Elton 1935-2001
- Kethe, William d. c.1608
- Key, Francis Scott 1779-1843
- Keynes (of Tilton) John Maynard, 1st Baron 1883-1946
- Khayyám, Omar c.1050-c.1123
- Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah 1900-89
- Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich 1894-1971
- Kidder, Tracy 1945-
- Kierkegaard, Sören Aabye 1813-55
- Killy, Jean-Claude 1943-
- Kilmer, Joyce 1886-1918
- Kilmer, Val 1959-
- Kilpatrick, James J 1920-2010
- Kim Il Sung 1912-94
- Kimball, Donald M
- Kincaid, Jamaica originally Elaine Potter Richardson 1949-
- King, Anthony 1934-
- King, Billie Jean née Moffitt 1943-
- King, Carlyle 1907-88
- King, Don 1932-
- King, Martin Luther Jr 1929-68
- King, Stephen 1947-
- King, William Lyon Mackenzie 1874-1950
- Kingsley, Charles 1819-75
- Kingsley, Mary Henrietta 1862-1900
- Kington, Miles 1941-2008
- Kinnock (of Bedwellty) Neil Gordon Baron 1942-
- Kinsella, W(illiam) P(atrick) 1935-
- Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard 1865-1935
- Kirkland, (Joseph) Lane 1922-99
- Kirkup, James 1923-2009
- Kishen fl.c.1840
- Kissinger, Henry Alfred 1923-
- Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome (Horatio) Herbert, 1st Earl 1850-1916
- Klee, Paul 1874-1940
- Klein, Calvin Richard 1942-
- Kline, Nancy 1955-
- Kneller, Godfrey 1646-1723
- Knight, Frank Hyneman 1885-1972
- Knobel, Steven Maxwell 1965-
- Knox, John c.1513-1572
- Knox, Philander Chase 1853-1921
- Knox, Ronald Arbuthnot 1888-1957
- Knudsen, Semon Emil 1912-98
- Koch, Edward I(rving) 1924-2013
- Koestler, Arthur 1905-83
- Koffler, Murray 1924-
- Koh, Harold Hongju 1954-
- Kohl, Helmut 1930-
- Kohlberg, Jerome, Jr 1925-
- Kollwitz, Käthe 1867-1945
- The Koran
- Korda, Sir Alexander 1893-1956
- Korn, Arthur 1891-1978
- Korthals, Robert 1933-
- Kosinski, Jerzy Nikodem 1933-91
- Kramer, Larry (Lawrence) 1935-
- Krasna, Norman 1909-84
- Kraus, Karl 1874-1936
- Krishnamurti, Jiddu 1895-1986
- Kristol, Irving 1920-2009
- Kroc, Ray(mond) A 1902-84
- Kronecker, Leopold 1823-91
- Kronenberger, Louis 1904-80
- Kruger, Paulus 1825-1904
- Krugman, Paul R 1953-
- Krutch, Joseph Wood 1893-1970
- Kubrick, Stanley 1928-99
- Kuhn, Maggie 1905-95
- Kuhn, Thomas S(amuel) 1922-96
- Kundera, Milan 1929-
- Küng, Hans 1928-
- Kunitz, Stanley Jasspon 1905-2006
- Kuralt, Charles 1934-97
- Kurosawa, Akira 1910-98
- Kushner, Tony 1956-
- Kurz, Mordecai 1934-
- Kyd, Thomas 1558-94
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- Labé, Louise 1526-66
- Labouchère, Henry Du Pré 1831-1912
- La Bruyère, Jean de 1645-96
- Laclos, Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de 1741-1803
- Ladd, Alan 1913-64
- La Fayette, Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne 1634-93
- La Fontaine, Jean de 1621-95
- Lagerfeld, Karl 1933-
- Lamartine, Alphonse Marie Louis de 1790-1869
- Lamb, Lady Caroline 1785-1828
- Lamb, Charles 1775-1834
- Lamb, Marjorie 1949-
- Lambert, Constant 1905-51
- Lamming, George Eric 1927-
- Lamport, Allan 1903-99
- Lance, Bert 1931-2013
- Landers, Ann 1918-2002
- Landor, Walter Savage 1775-1864
- Landowska, Wanda 1879-1959
- Lane, Anthony 1962-
- Lang, Andrew 1844-1912
- Lang, Fritz 1890-1976
- Langbridge, Frederick 1849-1923
- Langland, William c.1332-c.1400
- Langner, Lawrence 1890-1962
- Lanier, Sidney 1842-81
- Lanyer, Aemilia 1569-1645
- LaPierre, Wayne Robert 1948-
- Lao-Tzu 6c bc
- Lardner, Dionysus 1793-1859
- Lardner, James
- Lardner, Ring(old Wilmer) 1885-1933
- Larionov, Mikhail 1881-1964
- Larkin, Philip Arthur 1922-85
- La Rochefoucauld, François, 6th Duc de 1613-80
- Larwood, Harold 1904-95
- Lasky, Jesse 1880-1958
- Lassels, Richard c.1603-1668
- Latimer, Hugh c.1485-1555
- Lauder, Sir Harry (Hugh MacLennan) 1870-1950
- Laughlin, J Laurence 1850-1933
- Laughton, Charles 1899-1962
- Lauren, Ralph 1939-
- Laurence, Margaret 1926-87
- Laurencin, Marie 1885-1956
- Lautréamont, Comte de properly Isidore Ducasse 1846-70
- Laver, James 1899-1975
- Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent 1743-94
- Law, (Andrew) Bonar 1858-1923
- Law, William 1686-1761
- Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert) 1885-1930
- Lawrence, Gertrude 1898-1952
- Lawrence, T(homas) E(dward) known as Lawrence of Arabia 1888-1935
- Lawson, Henry Hertzberg 1867-1922
- Layamon fl.c.1190
- Layton, Irving 1912-2006
- Lazarus, Emma 1849-87
- Leach, Jim (James Albert Smith) 1942-
- Leacock, Stephen Butler 1869-1944
- Leadbelly pseudonym of Huddie William Ledbetter 1889 -1949
- Lear, Edward 1812-88
- Leary, Timothy Francis 1920-96
- Lease, Mary Elizabeth Cylens 1853-1933
- Leavis, F(rank) R(aymond) 1895-1978
- Leavis, Q(ueenie) D(orothy) 1906-81
- Le Bon, Gustave 1841-1931
- Lebowitz, Fran(ces Ann) 1951-
- Leboyer, Frédérick 1918-
- Le Carré, John pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell 1931-
- Le Corbusier pseudonym of Charles Édouard Jeanneret 1887-1965
- Ledger, Heath Andrew 1979-2008
- Lee, Gypsy Rose stage-name of Rose Louise Hovick 1914-70
- Lee, (Nelle) Harper 1926-
- Lee, Hsien Loong 1952-
- Lee, Kuan Yew 1923-2015
- Lee, Laurie 1914-97
- Lee, Robert E 1807-70
- Lee-Potter, Lynda 1935-2005
- Lees-Milne, James 1908-97
- Lees-Smith, Hastings Bernard 1878-1941
- Leeson, Nick 1967-
- Léger, Fernand 1881-1946
- Le Guin, Ursula née Kroeber 1929-
- Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher Charles Herbert 1934-
- Lehrer, Tom (Thomas Andrew) 1928-
- Leisen, Mitchell 1898-1972
- Lekota, Mosiuoa 1948-
- LeMay, Curtis Emerson 1906-90
- Lemmon, Jack (John Uhler) 1925-2001
- Lemmy (Ian Fraser Kilmister) 1945-
- L’Engle, Madeleine married name Mrs Hugh Franklin 1918-2007
- Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich originally Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov 1870-1924
- Lennon, John Winston 1940-80
- Lennon, John Winston and McCartney, Sir (James) Paul 1940-80, 1942-
- Leno, Jay (James Douglas Muir) 1950-
- Lenthall, William 1591-1662
- Leonard, Elmore John 1925-2013
- Leonard, Sugar Ray 1956-
- Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519
- Leonidas d.480 bc
- Lerner, Alan Jay 1918-86
- Le Sage, Alain René 1668-1747
- Leslie, David 1601-82
- Lessing, Doris May née Tayler 1919-2013
- Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim 1729-81
- L’Estrange, Sir Roger 1616-1704
- Lette, Kathy 1958-
- Letterman, David Michael 1947-
- Leupold, Jakob 1674-1727
- Levant, Oscar 1906-72
- Levenson, Michael
- Levenstein, Ros
- Leverson, Ada 1895-1936
- Levertov, Denise 1923-97
- Levi, Primo 1919-87
- Levin, (Henry) Bernard 1928-2004
- Levitt, Steven David 1967-
- Lévis, Duc de 1764-1830
- Lévi-Strauss, Claude 1908-2009
- Lewin, Albert 1895-1968
- Lewis, C(live) S(taples) 1898-1963
- Lewis, Esther married name Clark fl.1747-89
- Lewis, Joe E 1902-71
- Lewis, John L(lewellyn) 1880-1969
- Lewis, (Harry) Sinclair 1885-1951
- Lewis, (Percy) Wyndham 1882-1957
- LeWitt, Sol 1928-2007
- Lewontin, Richard Charles 1929-
- Leybourne, George pseudonym of Joseph Saunders 1842-84
- Lezama Lima, José 1910-76
- Li Po 701-62
- Liberace pseudonym of Wladziu Valentino Liberace 1919-87
- Liberman, Alexander 1912-99
- Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph 1742-99
- Lichtenstein, Roy 1923-97
- Liebermann, Max 1847-1935
- Liebman, David 1946-
- Ligne, Charles Joseph, Prince de 1735-
- Lillie, Beatrice Gladys stage-name of Constance Sylvia Munston, Lady Peel 1898-1989
- Lillo, George 1693-1739
- Lin Yutang 1895-1976
- Lincoln, Abraham 1809-65
- Lindbergh, Anne Spencer Morrow 1906-2001
- Lindbergh, Charles A(ugustus) 1902-74
- Lindsay, John Vliet 1921-2000
- Lindsay, (Nicholas) Vachel 1879-1931
- Linklater, Eric Robert 1889-1974
- Linnaeus, Carolus 1707-78
- Lippard, Lucy 1937-
- Lippmann, Walter 1899-1974
- Lispector, Clarice 1925-77
- Liszt, Franz 1811-86
- Littlewood, John Edensor 1885-1977
- Lively, Penelope (Margaret) 1933-
- Livingstone, Dr David 1813-73
- Livingstone, Ken 1945-
- Livy full name Titus Livius 59 BC-AD 17
- Llewellyn, Richard originally Richard Doyle Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd 1907-83
- Lloyd, Henry Demarest 1847-1903
- Lloyd, John 1946-
- Lloyd, Marie stage-name of Matilda Alice Victoria Wood 1870-1922
- Lloyd George (of Dwyfor), David, 1st Earl 1863-1945
- Lloyd Webber, Julian 1951-
- Loach, Ken 1936-
- Lochhead, Liz 1947-
- Locke, John 1632-1704
- Lodge, David John 1935-
- Lodge, Henry Cabot 1850-1924
- Loengard, John Borg 1934-
- Lofthouse, Nat 1925-2011
- Logau, Friedrich von 1605-55
- Lombardi, Vince(nt Thomas) 1913-70
- London, Jack (John Griffith) 1876-1916
- Longden, Robert Paton 1903-40
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 1807-82
- Longworth, Alice Roosevelt 1884-1980
- Lonsdale, Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of 1857-1944
- Loos, Adolf 1870-1933
- Loos, Anita c.1893-1981
- Lorca, Federico García 1898-1936
- Loren, Sophia pseudonym of Sofia Scicolone 1934-
- Lorenz, Konrad 1903-89
- Louis IX also called St Louis 1214-70
- Louis XI 1423-83
- Louis XIV known as the Great or le Roi Soleil [the Sun King] 1638-1715
- Louis XVI 1754-93
- Louis XVIII originally Stanislas Xavier 1755-1824
- Louis Philippe known as the Citizen King 1773-1850
- Louis, Joe pseudonym of Joseph Louis Barrow 1914-81
- Love, James pseudonym of James Dance 1722-74
- Lovelace, Richard 1618-58
- Loveless, George 1805-40
- Lovell, Sir (Alfred Charles) Bernard 1913-2012
- Lovelock, James Ephraim 1919-
- Lowe, Emily fl.1850s
- Lowell, Amy 1874-1925
- Lowell, James Russell 1819-91
- Lowell, Robert Traill Spence Jr 1917-77
- Lowenthal, Leo 1900-93
- Lowndes, William 1652-1724
- Lowry, (Clarence) Malcolm 1909-57
- Lucan full name Marcus Annaeus Lucanus ad 39-65
- Lucas, E(dward) V(errell) 1868-1938
- Lucas, F(rank) L(awrence) 1894-1967
- Lucas, George 1944-
- Luce, Clare Booth 1903-87
- Lucretius full name Titus Lucretius Carus 98-c.55 bc
- Lugones, Leopoldo 1874-1938
- Lukács, Georg 1885-1971
- Lumière, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas 1862-1954
- Lurie, Alison 1926-
- Luther, Martin 1483-1546
- Lutyens, Sir Edwin Landseer 1869-1944
- Lyly, John c.1554-1606
- Lynch, David Keith 1946-
- Lynd, Robert 1879-1949
- Lyndon, Neil 1946-
- Lyte, Henry Francis 1793-1847
- Lyttelton, Humphrey Richard Adeane 1921-2008
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- McAleese, Mary 1951-
- MacArthur, Douglas 1880-1964
- Macarthur, James 1937-2010
- Macaulay, Dame (Emilie) Rose 1881-1958
- Macaulay (of Rothley), Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron 1800-59
- McAuliffe, Anthony 1898-1975
- MacBeth, George Mann 1932-92
- MacCaig, Norman Alexander 1910-96
- McCain, John 1936-
- McCann, M(ichael) J(oseph) 1824-1883
- McCarthy, Cormac originally Charles McCarthy 1933-
- McCarthy, Eugene J(oseph) 1916-2005
- McCarthy, Joseph R(aymond) 1909-57
- McCarthy, Mary Thérèse 1912-89
- McCartney, Sir (James) Paul 1942-
- McCarty, Maclyn 1911-2005
- McClellan, George Brinton 1826-85
- MacColl, Ewan James Miller 1915-89
- McCourt, Frank 1931-2009
- McCoy, John B(on net) 1943-
- McCrae, John 1872-1915
- McCullers, (Lula) Carson née Smith 1917-67
- McCurry, Michael D 1954-
- MacDiarmid, Hugh pseudonym of Christopher Murray Grieve 1892-1978
- McDonald, Alonzo L 1928-
- MacDonald, George 1824-1905
- Macdonald, (James) Ramsay 1866-1937
- MacDonnell, A(rchibald) G(ordon) 1895-1941
- MacDougall, Ranald 1915-73
- McElligott, Tom (Thomas James) 1943-2003
- McEnroe, John Patrick 1959-
- McEwan, Ian Russell 1948-
- McFadden, Robert D(ennis) 1937-
- McFarlane, J A, and Clements, Warren 1944-, 1952-
- McFarlane, Robert ‘Bud’ Carl 1937-
- MacGill, Patrick 1890-1963
- McGonagall, William c.1825-1902
- McGough, Roger 1937-
- MacGowan, Shane 1957-
- McGovern, George S(tanley) 1922-2012
- McGregor, Ewan 1971-
- McGuigan, Barry 1961-
- Machado de Assis Joaquim Maria 1839-1908
- Machiavelli, Niccolò di Bernardo dei 1469-1527
- McIlvanney, William Angus 1936-
- McInerney, Jay 1955-
- MacInnes, Colin 1914-79
- MacInnis, Joseph 1937-
- Mackay, Alan Lindsay 1926-
- McKay, Claude originally Festus Claudius 1890-1948
- Mackaye, Dorothy Disney 1904-92
- Macke, August 1887-1914
- Mackellar, (Isobel Marion) Dorothea 1885-1968
- McKellen, Sir Ian Murray 1939-
- MacKenzie, Sir (Edward Montague) Compton 1883-1972
- MacKenzie, Lewis W 1940-
- Mackintosh, Sir James 1765-1832
- MacLaine, Shirley pseudonym of Shirley MacLean Beatty 1934-
- McLean, Don 1945-
- Maclean, Sir Fitzroy Hew 1911-96
- Maclean, John 1879-1923
- MacLean, Sorley Gaelic name Somhairle MacGill-Eain 1911-96
- MacLeish, Archibald 1892-1982
- MacLennan, Hugh 1927-90
- Macleod, Fiona
- Macleod, Iain Norman 1913-70
- McLuhan, (Herbert) Marshall 1911-80
- Macmillan, Sir (Maurice) Harold, 1st Earl of Stockton 1894-1986
- McMurtry, Larry Jeff 1936-
- McNamara, Robert Strange 1916-2009
- MacNeice, (Frederick) Louis 1907-63
- McNeil, Robert
- MacQueen, Robert, Lord Braxfield 1722-99
- MacRéamoinn, Sean Seamas Criostoir 1921-2007
- Madan, Geoffrey 1895-1947
- Madison, James 1751-1836
- Madoff, Bernie (Bernard Lawrence) 1938-
- Madonna full name Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone 1958-
- Maeterlinck, Maurice 1862-1949
- Magidson, Herb 1906-86
- Magna Carta
- Mahathir, Mohamad 1925-
- Mahler, Gustav 1860-1911
- Mahony, Francis Sylvester pseudonym Father Prout 1804-66
- Mailer, Norman Kingsley 1923-2007
- Maillart, Ella Kini 1903-97
- Maimonides properly Moses ben Maimon 1135-1204
- Maintenon, Françoise d’Aubigné, Marquise de known as Madame de Maintenon 1635-1719
- Major, Sir John 1943-
- Makin, Bathsua b. c.1600
- Makwetu, Clarence 1931-
- Malamud, Bernard 1914-86
- Malcolm X originally Malcolm Little 1925-65
- Malevich, Kasimir 1878-1935
- Mallarmé, Stéphane 1842-98
- Mallet-Stevens, Robert 1886-1945
- Mallory, George Leigh 1886-1924
- Malory, Sir Thomas d.1471
- Malouf, David 1934-
- Malthus, Thomas Robert 1766-1834
- Mamet, David Alan 1947-
- Manchester, William Raymond 1922-2004
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- Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) 1304-74
- Petronius Arbiter d. ad 66
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- Pittacus of Mytilene 650-570 bc
- Pius II real name Enea Silvio de Piccolomini 1405-64
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- Prince in full Prince Roger Nelson 1958-
- Prior, Matthew 1664-1721
- Pritchett, Sir V(ictor) S(awdon) 1900-97
- Private Eye
- Proctor, Adelaide Ann pseudonym of Mary Berwick 1825-64
- Profumo, John Dennis 1915-2006
- Prokofiev, Sergei Sergeyevich 1891-1953
- Propertius, Sextus 1c bc
- Protagoras c.490-c.420 bc
- Proudhon, Pierre Joseph 1809-65
- Proulx, E. Annie 1935-
- Proust, Marcel 1871-1922
- Prout, Father
- Prynne, William 1600-69
- Pryor, Richard 1940-2005
- Publilius Syrus 1c bc
- Puccini, Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria 1858-1924
- Puckett, B Earl 1897-1974
- Pudney, John Sleigh 1909-77
- Puig, Manuel 1932-90
- Pulitzer, Joseph 1847-1911
- Punch
- Purdy, Al 1918-2000
- Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeyevich 1799-1837
- Pussy Riot
- Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich 1952-
- Putnam, Israel 1718-90
- Pu Yi 1906-67
- Puzo, Mario 1920-99
- Pyke, Magnus 1908-92
- Pynchon, Thomas Ruggles 1937-
- Pyrrhus of Epirus 319-272 bc
- Pythagoras 6c bc
- q
- Qaboos, Bin Said 1940-
- Qian, Zhang
- Quant, Dame Mary 1934-
- Quarles, Francis 1592-1644
- Quayle, Dan (James Danforth) 1947-
- Quennell, Sir Peter Courtney 1905-93
- Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas known as ‘Q’ 1863-1944
- Quin, James 1693-1766
- Quindlen, Anna 1953-
- Quine, Willard Van Orman 1908-2000
- Quinet, Edgar 1803-75
- Quinn, Jane Bryant 1939-
- Quintilian properly Marcus Fabius Quintilianus c.35-c.100 AD
- Quiroga, Horacio 1878-1937
- r
- Raban, Jonathan 1942-
- Rabelais, François c.1494-c.1553
- Rabi, Isidor Isaac 1898-1988
- Rabin, Yitzhak 1922-95
- Rachmaninov, Sergei Vasilevich 1873-1943
- Racine, Jean 1639-99
- Radcliffe, Daniel Jacob 1989-
- Radisson, Pierre-Esprit 1636-1710
- Rado, James 1939-
- Rae, John 1931-2006
- Rahner, Karl 1904-84
- Rainborowe, Thomas 1598-1648
- Raine, Craig Anthony 1944-
- Raine, Kathleen Jessie 1908-2003
- Raleigh, Sir Walter 1552-1618
- Rambert, Dame Marie 1888-1982
- Ramón y Cajal Santiago 1852-1934
- Ramos, Graciliano 1892-1953
- Ramsey, Sir Alf(red) 1922-99
- Rand, Ayn 1905-82
- Randall, Clarence Beldan 1891-1967
- Randall, Dudley 1914-2000
- Ranjitsinhji, Prince 1872-1933
- Rankin, Ian 1960-
- Rankin, Jeanette 1880-1973
- Ransom, John Crowe 1888-1974
- Raphael, Frederic 1931-
- Rapoport, Anatol 1911-2007
- Rather, Dan(iel Irvin) 1931-
- Rattigan, Sir Terence 1911-77
- Rauschenberg, Robert 1925-2008
- Ravel, (Joseph) Maurice 1875-1937
- Ravitch, Diane Silvers 1938-
- Rawnsley, Andrew 1962-
- Ray, Dixy Lee 1914-94
- Ray, James Earl 1928-98
- Rayburn, Sam(uel Taliaferro) 1882-1961
- Read, Sir Herbert Edward 1893-1968
- Reade, Charles 1814-84
- Reagan, Nancy 1923-
- Reagan, Ronald Wilson 1911-2004
- Reardon, Ray 1932-
- Red Cloud original name Mahpiua Luta 1822-1909
- Redgrave, Vanessa 1937-
- Redmond, John Edward 1856-1918
- Redon, Odilon 1840-1916
- Redtenbacher, Ferdinand 1818-83
- Reed, Henry 1914-86
- Reed, Ishmael Scott 1938-
- Reed, John 1887-1920
- Rees-Mogg, William Rees-Mogg, Baron 1928-2012
- Reeve, Christopher 1952-2004
- Regan, Donald Thomas 1918-2003
- Reger, Max 1873-1916
- Reid, Alastair 1926-2014
- Reid, Thomas Mayne 1818-83
- Remarque, Erich Maria 1898-1970
- Renan, (Joseph) Ernest 1823-92
- Reno, Janet 1938-
- Renoir, Jean 1894-1979
- Renoir, Pierre Auguste 1841-1919
- Repplier, Agnes 1858-1950
- Reston, James B(arrett) 1909-95
- Revlon, Charles Haskell 1906-75
- Reyes, Alfonso 1889-1959
- Reynolds, Sir Joshua 1723-92
- Rhodes, Cecil John 1853-1902
- Rhys, Jean pseudonym of Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams 1894-1979
- Ricardo, David 1772-1823
- Rice, Condoleezza 1954-
- Rice, Grantland 1880-1954
- Rice-Davies, Mandy 1944-2014
- Rich, Adrienne Cecile 1929-2012
- Richard I known as ‘the Lionheart’ 1157-99
- Richard of Devizes fl.c.1190
- Richards, Ann 1933-2006
- Richards, Sir Gordon 1904-86
- Richards, I(vor) A(rmstrong) 1893-1979
- Richardson, Henry Handel pen-name of Ethel Florence Lindesay Robertson née Richardson 1870-1946
- Richardson, Tony (Cecil Antonio) 1928-91
- Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, Duc de known as Cardinal Richelieu 1585-1642
- Richler, Mordecai 1931-2001
- Rickword, Edgell 1898-1982
- Ridge, W(illiam) Pett 1857-1930
- Riding, Laura née Reichenthal 1901-91
- Rifkind, Simon Hirsch 1901-95
- Rilke, Rainer Maria 1875-1926
- Rimbaud, (Jean Nicolas) Arthur 1854-91
- Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai Andreievich 1844-1908
- Riva, Maria 1924-
- Rivera, Diego 1886-1957
- Rivera, José Eustasio 1889-1928
- Rivers, Joan pseudonym of Joan Alexandra Molinsky 1933-2014
- Robb, Charles S(pittal) 1939-
- Robbe-Grillet, Alain 1922-2008
- Robbins, Colonel
- Robbins, Lionel Charles, Baron Robbins of Clare Market 1898-1984
- Robbins, Tim 1958-
- Robert of Clari fl.c.1216
- Roberts, Sir Charles George Douglas 1860-1943
- Robertson (of Port Ellen), George Islay Macneill Robertson, Baron 1946-
- Robeson, Paul 1898-1976
- Robin, Leo 1899-1985
- Robinson, (Edward) Austin George 1897-1993
- Robinson, Casey 1903-79
- Robinson, Edward G pseudonym of Emanuel Goldenberg 1893-1973
- Robinson, Edwin Arlington 1869-1935
- Robinson, Joan Violet née Maurice 1903-83
- Robinson, John Arthur Thomas 1919-83
- Robinson, Mary 1944-
- Robson, Sir Bobby 1933-2009
- Roche, Sir Boyle 1743-1807
- Rochester, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of 1647-80
- Rockefeller, David 1915-
- Rockefeller, John D(avison) 1839-1937
- Rockefeller, John D(avison) Jr 1874-1960
- Rockefeller, John D(avison) III 1906-78
- Rockefeller, Laurance S 1910-2004
- Rockefeller, Nelson A(ldrich) 1908-79
- Rockefeller, Winthrop 1912-73
- Rockne, Knute Kenneth 1888-1931
- Rockwell, Norman 1894-1978
- Rodchenko, Alexander 1891-1956
- Roddenberry, Gene 1921-91
- Roddick, Andy 1982-
- Roddick, Anita 1942-2007
- Rodgers, Richard and Hart, Lorenz 1902-79; 1896-1943
- Rodgers, T(hurman) J(ohn) 1948-
- Rodó, José Enrique 1872-1917
- Rodriguez, Richard 1944-
- Rodriguez, Sue 1950-94
- Roethke, Theodore 1908-63
- Rogers, Carl Ransom 1902-87
- Rogers, Richard George Rogers, Baron 1933-
- Rogers, Will 1879-1935
- Rogers, William Pierce 1913-2001
- Rolleston, Humphrey 1862-1944
- Rollins, Sonny (Theodore Walter) 1930-
- Romani, Felice 1788-1865
- Romney, George W 1907-95
- Romney, (Willard) Mitt 1947-
- Roosevelt, (Anna) Eleanor 1884-1962
- Roosevelt, Franklin D(elano) 1882-1945
- Roosevelt, Theodore 1858-1919
- Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of 1847-1929
- Rosenberg, Harold 1906-78
- Rosenberg, Isaac 1890-1918
- Rosenblum, Robert 1927-2006
- Ross, Edward Alsworth 1866-1951
- Rossetti, Christina Georgina 1830-94
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 1828-82
- Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio 1792-1868
- Rosso, Medardo 1858-1928
- Rostand, Jean 1894-1977
- Rosten, Leo Calvin 1908-97
- Roth, Guenther 1931-
- Roth, Henry 1906-95
- Roth, Philip Milton 1933-
- Roth, William V Jr 1921-2003
- Rothko, Mark originally Marcus Rothkovitch 1903-70
- Rothwell, Talbot 1916-74
- Rotten, Johnny stage name of John Lydon 1956-
- Rouault, Georges Henri 1871-1958
- Rous, Sir Stanley 1895-1986
- Rousseau, Jean Jacques 1712-78
- Rowbotham, Sheila 1943-
- Rowland, Helen 1876-1950
- Rowling, J K 1965-
- Roy, Arundhati 1960-
- Roy, Gabrielle 1909-83
- Royden, (Agnes) Maude 1876-1956
- Rubenstein, Helena 1870-1965
- Ruckelshaus, William D(oyle) 1932-
- Rudd, Kevin Michael 1957-
- Rudofsky, Bernard 1905-88
- Ruether, Rosemary Radford 1936-
- Ruiz, Juan c.1290-c.1350
- Rulfo, Juan 1918-86
- Rumsfeld, Donald 1932-
- Runcie, Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, Baron 1921-2000
- Runciman, Sir Steven 1903-2000
- Runge, Philipp Otto 1777-1810
- Runyon, (Alfred) Damon 1884-1946
- Rushdie, Sir (Ahmed) Salman 1947-
- Rushworth, John c.1612-1690
- Rusk, (David) Dean 1909-94
- Ruskin, John 1819-1900
- Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl 1872-1970
- Russell, Dora 1894-1986
- Russell, George William pseudonym Æ 1867-1935
- Russell, John Russell, 1st Earl 1792-1878
- Russell, John 1919-2008
- Russell, Mary Annette Russell, Countess née Beauchamp pseudonym Elizabeth 1866-1941
- Russell, Rosalind 1911-76
- Russell, Sir William Howard 1820-1907
- Russell, Willy (William) 1947-
- Rutherford, Ernest Baron Rutherford of Nelson 1871-1937
- Ryan, Desmond 1893-1964
- Rybczynski, Witold Marian 1943-
- Ryder, Albert Pinkham 1847-1917
- Ryle, Gilbert 1900-76
- s
- Saarinen Aline Bernstein née Loucheim 1914-72
- Sábato, Ernesto 1911-2011
- Sachar, Abram Leon 1899-1993
- Sacks (of Aldgate) Sir Jonathan Baron 1948-
- Sacks, Oliver Wolf 1933-
- Sackville-West, Vita (Victoria Mary) 1892-1962
- Sadat, Anwar el- 1918-81
- Sade, Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de 1740-1814
- Safer, Morley 1931-
- Safire, William 1929-2009
- Sagan, Carl Edward 1934-96
- Sagan, Françoise 1935-2004
- Sage, Lorna 1943-2001
- Saifoutdinov, Anvar 1963-
- Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de 1900-44
- Saint Laurent, Louis 1882-1973
- Saint-Saëns, (Charles) Camille 1835-1921
- Saki pseudonym of Hector Hugh Munro 1870-1916
- Sala, George Augustus Henry 1828-95
- Salinger, J(erome) D(avid) 1919-2010
- Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne Cecil, 3rd Marquis of 1830-1903
- Sallust in full Gaius Sallustius Crispus 86-34 bc
- Salter, Sir (James) Arthur, 1st Baron Salter 1881-1975
- Salvianus c.400-c.470 ad
- Sampson, Anthony (Terrell Seward) 1926-2004
- Samuel, Herbert Louis, 1st Viscount Samuel 1870-1963
- Samuelson, Paul Anthony 1915-2009
- Samuelson, Sir Sydney 1925-
- Sand, George pseudonym of Amandine Aurore Lucille Dupin, Baronne Dudevant 1804-76
- Sandburg, Carl 1878-1967
- Sandburg, Sheryl Kara 1969-
- Sanders, George 1906-72
- Sandys, George 1578-1644
- Santayana, George originally Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana 1863-1952
- Sappho 7c bc
- Sarduy, Severo 1937-93
- Sargent, John Singer 1856-1925
- Sargent, Sir (Harold) Malcolm Watts 1895-1967
- Sarkozy, Nicolas 1955-
- Sarnoff, David 1891-1971
- Saroyan, William 1908-81
- Sarraute, Nathalie 1902-99
- Sarton, George A 1884-1956
- Sarton, May 1912-95
- Sartre, Jean-Paul 1905-80
- Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain 1886-1967
- Satie, Erik Alfred Leslie 1866-1925
- Sayers, Dorothy L(eigh) 1893-1957
- Scargill, Arthur 1938-
- Scève, Maurice c.1510-c.1564
- Schacht, Hjalmar Horace Greely 1877-1970
- Schaw, Janet b.c.1730
- Scheckter, Jody 1950-
- Schiaparelli, Elsa 1890-1973
- Schiller, Friedrich 1759-1805
- Schlesinger, Arthur Meier 1888-1965
- Schlesinger, Arthur M(eier) Jr 1917-2007
- Schlesinger, James R (odney) 1929-2014
- Schmitt, Wolfgang Rudolph 1944-
- Schnabel, Artur 1882-1951
- Schoenbaum, Thomas J 1939-
- Schoenberg, Arnold Franz Walter 1874-1951
- Schopenhauer, Arthur 1788-1860
- Schreiner, Olive Emily Albertina pseudonym Ralph Iron 1855-1920
- Schroeder, Patricia Scott 1940-
- Schulberg, Budd Wilson 1914-2009
- Schultz, Howard 1952-
- Schulz, Charles Monroe 1922-2000
- Schumacher, E(rnst) F(riedrich) 1911-77
- Schumacher, Michael 1969-
- Schumpeter, Joseph Alois 1883-1950
- Schwartz, Eugene M 1927-95
- Schwartz, Sanford 1946-
- Schwarzenegger, Arnold 1947-
- Schwarzkopf, H Norman, Jr 1934-2012
- Schweikart, Russell 1935-
- Schweitzer, Albert 1875-1965
- Scorsese, Martin 1942-
- Scott, C(harles) P(restwich) 1846-1932
- Scott, Duncan Campell 1862-1947
- Scott, F(rancis) R(eginald) 1899-1985
- Scott, Robert Falcon 1868-1912
- Scott, Rose 1847-1925
- Scott, Sir Walter 1771-1832
- Scribner, Charles, Jr 1921-95
- Seaborg, Glenn 1912-99
- Seacole, Mary c.1805-1884
- Seaton, George pseudonym of George Stenius 1911 -79
- Sedaris, David Raymond 1956-
- Sedighi, Hojatoleslam Kazem 1951-
- Seeger, Alan 1888-1916
- Seeger, Pete 1919-2014
- Seeley, Sir John Robert 1834-95
- Segal, Erich 1937-2010
- Segovia, Andrés 1893-1987
- Seibel, Cathy 1960-
- Seinfeld, Jerry 1954-
- Selden, John 1584-1654
- Self, Will 1961-
- J(ulian) 1898-1951, 1897-1968
- Sellars, Peter 1957-
- Sellers, Peter 1925-80
- Selye, Hans 1907-83
- Selznick, David O(liver) 1902-65
- Seneca full name Lucius Annaeus Seneca called the Younger c.4 BC-65 AD
- Senghor, Léopold Sédar 1906-2001
- Senior, Nassau William 1790-1864
- Senna, Ayrton 1960-94
- Serling, Rod
- Service, Robert William 1874-1958
- Seuss, Dr pseudonym of Theodor Seuss Geisel 1904-91
- Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal Marquise de 1626-96
- Sexton, Anne née Harvey 1928-74
- Shaffer, Sir Peter 1926-
- Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
- Shange, Ntozake originally Paulette Williams 1948-
- Shankly, Bill (William) 1913-81
- Shapin, Steven 1955-
- Sharansky, Natan Anatoly Borisovich 1948-
- Sharp, William pseudonym Fiona Macleod 1855-1905
- Sharpe, Tom (Thomas Ridley) 1928-2013
- Shaw, George Bernard 1856-1950
- Shawcross, Sir Hartley William Baron Shawcross 1902-2003
- Shawcross, William 1946-
- Sheehy-Skeffington, Francis 1878-1916
- Sheen, Charlie pseudonym of Carlos Irwin Estevez 1965-
- Sheen, Fulton John 1895-1979
- Shelley, Mary Godwin 1797-1851
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe 1792-1822
- Sheridan, Philip Henry 1831-88
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 1751-1816
- Sherman, Richard M and Robert B 1928-, 1925-2012
- Sherman, William Tecumseh 1820-91
- Sherriff, R(obert) C(edric) 1896-1975
- Shevardnadze, Eduard Ambrosievich 1928-2014
- Shinwell, Emanuel Shinwell, Baron 1884-1986
- Shipton, Eric Earle 1908-77
- Shirley, James 1596-1666
- Shultz, George P(ratt) 1920-
- Shute, Nevil originally Nevil Shute Norway 1899-1960
- Sidgwick, Henry 1838-1900
- Sidmouth, Henry Addington, 1st Viscount 1757-1844
- Sidney, Algernon 1622-83
- Sidney, Sir Philip 1554-86
- Siegel, Jerome 1914-92
- Sièyes, Emmanuel Joseph, Comte also called Abbé Sièyes 1748-1836
- Sigismund 1368-1437
- Sigourney, Lydia Howard neé Huntley 1791-1865
- Sihanouk, Prince Norodom 1922-2012
- Sikorski, Gerry 1948-
- Sikorsky, Igor Ivan 1889-1972
- Sillitoe, Alan 1928-2010
- Silva, José Asunción 1865-96
- Silvers, Phil originally Philip Silver 1912-85
- Silvester, David
- Simon, Caroline K(lein) 1900-93
- Simon, Herbert A 1916-2001
- Simon (of Stackpole Elidor) John Allsebrook Simon, 1st Viscount 1873-1954
- Simon, (Marvin) Neil 1927-
- Simone, Nina pseudonym of Eunice Waymon 1933-2003
- Simonides of Ceos c.556-468 bc
- Simons, Henry C 1899-1946
- Simple, Peter pseudonym of Michael Wharton 1913-2006
- Simpson, Alan (Kooi) 1931-
- Simpson, Kirke L 1881-1972
- Simpson, O J (Orenthal James) 1947-
- Simpson, Tom 1938-67
- Sinatra, Frank (Francis Albert) 1915-98
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis 1904-91
- Singh, Vijay 1963-
- Sisco, Joseph John 1919-2004
- Sisson, C(harles) H(erbert) 1914-2003
- Sitting Bull real name Tatanka Iyotake 1834-90
- Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa 1887-1964
- Sitwell, Sir (Francis) Osbert 1892-1969
- Sixtus V originally Felice Peretti 1521-90
- Skelton, (Archibald) Noel 1880-1935
- Skelton, Red (Richard) 1913-97
- Skelton, Robin 1925-97
- Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic) 1904-90
- Skinner, Cornelia Otis 1902-79
- Skinner, John 1721-1807
- Skirving, Adam 1719-1803
- Slessor, Kenneth Adolf 1901-71
- Slezak, Leo 1873-1946
- Sloan, John French 1871-1951
- Slovo, Gillian 1952-
- Small, Albion W 1854-1926
- Smart, Christopher 1722-71
- Smiles, Samuel 1812-1904
- Smith, A J M 1902-80
- Smith, Adam 1723-90
- Smith, Al(fred) Emmanuel 1873-1944
- Smith, Alexander McCall 1949-
- Smith, Arthur 1954-
- Smith, Dodie 1896-1990
- Smith, Godfrey 1926-
- Smith, Iain Crichton Gaelic name Blain Mac A’Ghobhainn 1928-98
- Smith, Iain Duncan 1954-
- Smith, Ian Douglas 1919-2007
- Smith, John 1938-94
- Smith, Logan Pearsall 1865-1946
- Smith, Margaret Chase 1897-1995
- Smith, Dame Maggie (Margaret Natalie) 1934-
- Smith, Patti 1946-
- Smith, Red 1905-82
- Smith, Samuel Francis 1808-95
- Smith, Stevie (Florence Margaret) 1902-71
- Smith, Rev Sydney 1771-1845
- Smith, Sydney Goodsir 1915-75
- Smith, Walter Chalmers 1824-1908
- Smollett, Tobias George 1721-71
- Smuts, Jan Christian 1870-1950
- Snagge, John 1904-96
- Snow, Carmel 1887-1961
- Snow, C(harles) P(ercy), 1st Baron 1905-80
- Snow, Clyde Collins 1928-2014
- Snowden, Ed(ward Joseph) 1983-
- Snowden, Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount 1864-1937
- Snyder, Gary Sherman 1930-
- Socrates 469-399 bc
- Solon c.640-c.559 BC
- Solow, Robert M 1924-
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich 1918-2008
- Somerville, Edith (Anna Oenone) and Martin, Violet Florence née Ross who wrote under the pseudonym Martin Ross 1858-1949; 1862-1915
- Somoza, (García) Anastasio 1925-80
- Sontag, Susan 1933-2004
- Sophocles c.496-405 BC
- Sorley, Charles Hamilton 1895-1915
- Soros, George originally György Schwartz 1930-
- Soule, John Babsone Lane 1815-91
- Sousa, John Philip 1854-1932
- Soutar, William 1898-1943
- Southey, Robert 1774-1843
- Soyinka, Wole pseudonym of Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka 1934-
- Spacey, Kevin 1959-
- Spark, Dame Muriel Sarah neé Camberg 1918-2006
- Sparshott, Francis 1926-
- Speke, John Hanning 1827-64
- Spencer, Charles, Earl 1964-
- Spencer, Herbert 1820-1903
- Spender, Sir Stephen Harold 1909-95
- Spenser, Edmund c.1552-1599
- Spielberg, Steven 1947-
- Spillane, Mickey properly Frank Morrison Spillane 1918-2006
- Spinoza, Baruch also known as Benedict de Spinoza 1632-77
- Spock, Dr Benjamin McLane 1903-98
- Springer, Jerry (Gerald Norman) 1944-
- Spring-Rice, Sir Cecil Arthur 1858-1918
- Springsteen, Bruce 1949-
- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon 1834-92
- Squire, Sir J(ohn) C(ollings) 1884-1958
- Staël, Germaine Necker, Baronne de 1766-1817
- Stalin, Joseph originally Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili 1879-1953
- Stallone, Sylvester 1946-
- Stamp, Sir Josiah Charles, Baron Stamp of Shortlands 1880-1941
- Stanley, Sir Henry Morton originally John Rowlands 1841-1904
- Stanton, Elizabeth née Cady 1815-1902
- Stanwyck, Barbara originally Ruby Stevens 1907-90
- Stapledon, Olaf 1886-1950
- Stark, Dame Freya Madeleine 1893-1993
- Stark, John 1728-1822
- Starr, Roger 1918-2001
- Steacie, E W 1900-62
- Stead, William Thomas 1849-1912
- Steel, David Martin Scott Steel Baron 1938-
- Steele, Sir Richard 1672-1729
- Stefansson, Vilhjalmur 1879-1962
- Steffens, (Joseph) Lincoln 1866-1936
- Stegner, Wallace Earle 1909-93
- Steichen, Edward Jean 1879-1973
- Stein, Gertrude 1874-1946
- Stein, Herbert 1916-99
- Steinbeck, John Ernest 1902-68
- Steinem, Gloria 1934-
- Steiner, George 1929-
- Steinmetz, Charles Proteus 1865-1923
- Steloff, Frances 1887-1989
- Stendhal pseudonym of Henri Beyle 1783-1842
- Stengel, Casey (Charles Dillon) 1890-1975
- Stephen, J(ames) K(enneth) 1859-92
- Stephenson, Bette 1924-
- Sterling, Bruce 1954-
- Stern, Robert A(rthur) M(orton) 1939-
- Sterne, Laurence 1713-68
- Steuart (later Denham) Sir James 1712-80
- Stevens, Brooks 1911-95
- Stevens, Roger Lacey 1910-98
- Stevens, Wallace 1879-1955
- Stevenson, Adlai E(wing) 1900-65
- Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850-94
- Stewart, John Innes Mackintosh 1906-94
- Stigler, George Joseph 1911-91
- Still, Bayrd 1906-92
- Stilwell, General Joseph 1883-1946
- Stinchcombe, Arthur Leonard 1933-
- Sting originally Gordon Matthew Sumner 1951 -
- Stipe, Michael 1960-
- Stockton, Philip
- Stockwood, (Arthur) Mervyn 1913-95
- Stoker, Bram 1847-1912
- Stokowski, Leopold pseudonym of Antoni Stanislaw Boleslawowich 1882-1977
- Stone, Robert Anthony 1937-2015
- Stone, Samuel John 1839-1900
- Stopes, Marie 1880-1958
- Stoppard, Sir Tom originally Tom Straussler 1937-
- Storr, Robert 1949-
- Stowe, Harriet (Elizabeth) née Beecher 1811-96
- Strachey, (Evelyn) John 1901-63
- Strachey, (Giles) Lytton 1880-1932
- Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of 1593-1641
- Stravinsky, Igor Fedorovich 1882-1971
- Streep, Meryl Louise 1949-
- Streeton, Sir Arthur Ernest 1867-1943
- Streisand, Barbra 1942-
- Strindberg, August 1849-1912
- Strong, L(eonard) A(lfred) G(eorge) 1896-1958
- Strong, Sir Roy Colin 1935-
- Stuart, Francis 1902-2000
- Stuart, John McDouall 1815-66
- Stuart, Mary known as Mary, Queen of Scots 1542-87
- Stubbes, Philip 1543-93
- Studdert Kennedy, G(eoffrey) A(nketell) known as ‘Woodbine Willie’ 1883-1929
- Su Wu fl.c.100 BC
- Suckling, Sir John 1609-41
- Sugar, Lord Alan Michael 1947-
- Sullivan, Andrew 1963-
- Sullivan, Anne 1866-1936
- Sullivan, Timothy Daniel 1827-1914
- Sumner, William Graham 1840-1910
- Sun Tzu c.500-c.320 bc
- Sun Yat-Sen or Sun Yixian 1867-1925
- Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of c.1517-1547
- Surtees, Robert Smith 1803-64
- Sutherland, Arthur Jr 1902-73
- Swanson, Gloria originally Gloria May Josephine Svensson 1897-1983
- Sweetenham, Bill 1950-
- Sweezy, Paul Malor 1910-2004
- Swettenham, Sir Frank Athelstane 1850-1946
- Swift, Graham 1949-
- Swift, Jonathan 1667-1745
- Swinburne, Algernon Charles 1837-1909
- Symington, Stuart 1901-88
- Synge, John Millington 1871-1909
- Szasz, Thomas Stephen 1920-2012
- Szent-Györgyi, Albert von Nagyrapolt 1893-1986
- Szilard, Leo 1898-1964
- t
- Taaffe, Eduard Franz Josef, Graf von 1833-95
- Tacitus, Cornelius full name Publius or Gaius Cornelius Tacitus ad 55-c.120
- Taft, Robert A(lphonso) 1889-1953
- Taft, William Howard 1857-1930
- Takuboku, Ishikawa 1886-1902
- Talbot, Godfrey Walker 1908-2000
- Talese, Gay 1932-
- Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles-Maurice de, Prince of Benevento 1754-1838
- Tally, Ted 1952-
- Talma, François-Joseph 1763-1826
- Tanaka, Kakuei 1918-93
- Tannahill, Robert 1774-1810
- Tarantino, Quentin 1963-
- Tarkington, (Newton) Booth 1869-1946
- Tarrant, Chris 1946-
- Tartt, Donna 1963-
- Tate, (John Orley) Allen 1899-1979
- Tawney, R(ichard) H(enry) 1880-1962
- Taylor, A(lan) J(ohn) P(ercivale) 1906-90
- Taylor, Dwight 1902-86
- Taylor, Elizabeth Rosemond 1932-2011
- Taylor, Graham 1944-
- Taylor, Jeremy 1613-67
- Taylor, John Vernon 1914-2001
- Taylor, Maxwell Davenport 1901-87
- Teal, Clare 1973-
- Tebbit, Norman (Beresford) Tebbit Baron 1931-
- Te Kanawa, Dame Kiri 1944-
- Teller, Edward 1908-2003
- Temple, William 1881-1944
- Templeton, Charles 1915-2001
- Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron also called Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809-92
- Tenzing Norgay known as Sherpa Tenzing 1914-86
- Terence full name Publius Terentius Afer 185-159 bc
- Terentianus Maurus 2/3c bc
- Terry, Quinlan 1937-
- Tertullian full name Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus c.160-c.220 AD
- Tessimond, A(rthur) S(eymour) J(ohn) 1902-62
- Thackeray, William Makepeace 1811-63
- Tharp, Twyla 1941-
- Thatcher, Margaret Hilda Thatcher Baroness 1925-2013
- Theophrastus c.372-286 bc
- Theresa (of Calcutta), Mother originally Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu 1910-97
- Theron, Charlize 1975-
- Theroux, Paul Edward 1941-
- Thesiger, Sir Wilfred Patrick 1910-2003
- Thiers, (Louis) Adolphe 1797-1877
- Thomas, (Walter) Brandon 1857-1914
- Thomas, D(onald) M(itchell) 1935-
- Thomas, Dylan Marlais 1914-53
- Thomas, (Philip) Edward 1878-1917
- Thomas, Sir George 1881-1972
- Thomas, John Parnell 1895-1970
- Thomas, Michael M 1936-
- Thomas, R(onald) S(tuart) 1913-2000
- Thompson, E P 1924-93
- Thompson, Francis 1859-1907
- Thompson, Hunter S(tockton) 1939-2005
- Thompson, James R 1936-
- Thompson, Robert 1914-97
- Thompson, Tommy 1913-85
- Thomson, David 1914-88
- Thomson, James 1700-48
- Thomson, James pseudonym ‘BV’, Bysshe Vanolis 1834-82
- Thomson, Roy Herbert, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet 1894-1976
- Thomson, Virgil 1896-1989
- Thoreau, Henry David 1817-62
- Thorndike, Dame (Agnes) Sybil 1882-1976
- Thorne, James 1815-81
- Thorneycroft, Lord (George Edward) Peter 1909-94
- Thornton, Sir Henry 1871-1933
- Thorpe, (John) Jeremy 1929-2014
- Thrasymachus 5c bc
- Thubron, Colin Gerald Dryden 1939-
- Thucydides c.460-c.400 bc
- Thurber, James Grover 1894-1961
- Thurow, Lester C(arl) 1938-
- Tilden, Bill (William Tatem II) 1893-1953
- Tillich, Paul Johannes 1886-1965
- Tilman, Bill (Harold William) 1898-1977
- The Times
- Tintoretto real name Jacopo Robusti 1518-94
- Tobin, James 1918-2002
- Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Clérel de 1805-59
- Todd, Mike 1907-58
- Todd, Ron(ald) 1927-2005
- Toffler, Alvin 1928-
- Tóibín, Colm 1955-
- Tojo, Hideki 1885-1948
- Tolkien, J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel) 1892-1973
- Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich 1828-1910
- Tomé Pires c.1480-1525
- Tomlinson, (Alfred) Charles 1927-
- Tomlinson, H(enry) M(ajor) 1873-1958
- Toole, John Kennedy 1937-69
- Toplady, Augustus Montague 1740-78
- Torrance, Sam 1953-
- Toscanini, Arturo 1867-1957
- Towne, Robert 1936-
- Townsend, Sue 1945-2014
- Townshend, Pete 1945-
- Toynbee, Arnold 1852-83
- Toynbee, Arnold Joseph 1889-1975
- Toynbee, (Theodore) Philip 1916-81
- Toynbee, Polly 1946-
- Traherne, Thomas c.1636-1674
- Travers, Ben 1886-1980
- Travers, P(amela) L(yndon) 1906-96
- Tree, Sir Herbert (Draper) Beerbohm 1852-1917
- Treitschke, Georg Friedrich 1776-1842
- Trevelyan, George Macaulay 1876-1962
- Trevelyan, John 1904-85
- Trevino, Lee Buck 1939-
- Trevor-Roper, Hugh Redwald, Baron Dacre of Glanton 1914-2003
- Trillin, Calvin Marshall 1935-
- Trilling, Lionel 1905-75
- Trinder, Tommy 1909-89
- Trollope, Anthony 1815-82
- Trollope, Joanna 1943-
- Trotsky, Leon originally Lev Davidovich Bronstein 1879-1940
- Trudeau, Pierre Elliott 1919-2000
- Trueman, Fred (Frederick Sewards) 1931-2006
- Truman, Harry S 1884-1972
- Trump, Donald 1946-
- Truss, Lynne 1955-
- Truth, Sojourner née Isabella c.1797-1883
- Ts’ao Sung c.830-910
- Tsongas, Paul Efthemios 1941-97
- Tu Fu 712-70
- Tuchman, Barbara W(ertheim) 1912-89
- Tucker, Sophie pseudonym of Sophia Abuza 1884-1966
- Turgenev, Ivan 1818-83
- Turner, Bruce 1922-93
- Turner, Joseph Mallard William 1775-1851
- Tutu, Desmond Mpilo 1931-
- Twain, Mark pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens 1835-1910
- Tynan, Kenneth 1927-80
- Tyson, Don(ald) John 1930-2011
- Tyson, Mike 1966-
- Tzara, Tristan pseudonym of Samy Rosenstock 1896-1963
- u
- Uccello, Paolo 1397-1475
- Umaseo, Tadao 1920-2010
- Unamuno, Miguel de 1864-1936
- United Nations Charter
- Unseld, Siegfried 1924-2002
- Untermeyer, Louis 1885-1977
- Updike, John Hoyer 1932-2009
- Urey, Harold Clayton 1893-1981
- Ustinov, Sir Peter Alexander 1921-2004
- Uttley, Alison 1884-1976
- v
- Vachell, Horace Annesley 1861-1955
- Valenzuela, Luisa 1940-
- Valéry, Paul 1871-1945
- Valle y Caviedes, Juan del c.1652-?1695
- Vallejo, César Abraham 1892-1938
- Vance, Paul and Pockriss, Lee 1929-, 1924-2011
- van den Berghe Pierre L 1933-
- Vanderbilt, Amy 1908-74
- van der Post, Sir Laurens 1906-96
- van de Wetering, Janwillem 1931-2008
- Van Druten, John William 1901-57
- van Gogh, Vincent 1853-90
- Van Hooijdonk, Pierre 1969-
- Van Horne, Harriet 1920-98
- Varèse, Edgar 1883-1965
- Vargas Llosa, Mario 1936-
- Vasari, Giorgio 1511-74
- Vasconcelos, José 1882-1959
- Vaughan Williams, Ralph 1872-1958
- Vaughan, Henry 1622-95
- Vaz de Caminha, Pero late 15c-early 16c
- Veblen, Thorstein 1857-1929
- Vega Carpio, Lope Félix de 1562-1635
- Vegetius full name Flavius Vegetius Renatus fl.c.385-400 AD
- Venables, Terry 1943-
- Venturi, Robert Charles 1925-
- Vergniaud, Pierre Victurnien 1753-93
- Verlaine, Paul 1844-96
- Verne, Jules 1828-1905
- Versace, Donatella 1955-
- Vespasian full name Titus Flavius Vespasianus ad 9-79
- Vettel, Sebastian 1987-
- Vettriano, Jack 1951-
- Vian, Boris 1920-59
- Vicious, Sid pseudonym of John Simon Ritchie 1957-79
- Victoria in full Alexandrina Victoria 1819-1901
- Vidal, Gore originally Eugene Luther Vidal Jr 1925-2012
- Vidor, King Wallis 1894-1982
- Vieira, Antônio 1608-97
- Villon, François 1431-63
- St Vincent of Lérins known as Vincentius Lerinensis d.c.450 AD
- Viner, Jacob 1892-1970
- Virgil full name Publius Vergilius Maro 70-19 bc
- Vitruvius full name Marcus Vitruvius Pollio c.70 BC-25 BC
- Vlaminck, Maurice de 1876-1958
- Voltaire pseudonym of François Marie Arouet 1694-1778
- Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr 1922-2007
- Vorster, John originally Balthazar Johannes Vorster 1915-83
- Vreeland, Diana originally Diana Dalziel 1906?-1989
- Vukovich, Bill 1918-55
- w
- Waddington, Miriam 1917-2004
- Wagner, Otto 1841-1918
- Wagner, Robert Ferdinand Jr 1944-93
- Wain, John Barrington 1925-94
- Waite, Terry (Terence Hardy) 1939-
- Waits, Tom 1949-
- Walcott, Derek Alton 1930-
- Wald, George 1906-97
- Wald, Jerry 1911-62
- Waldron, Hicks 1924-
- Walesa, Lech 1943-
- Waley, Arthur David 1889-1966
- Walken, Christopher 1943-
- Walker, Alice Malsenior 1944-
- Wall, Mervyn 1908-97
- Wallace, George Corley 1919-98
- Wallace, Henry Agard 1888-1965
- Wallace, William Ross 1819-81
- Wallach, Eli 1915-2014
- Waller, Edmund 1606-87
- Waller, Fats (Thomas Wright) 1904-43
- Wallis, Hal 1898-1986
- Walpole, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford 1717-97
- Walpole, Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Orford 1676-1745
- Walters, Julie 1950-
- Walther Von der Vogelweide c.1170-1230
- Walton, Izaak 1593-1683
- Walton, Sir William Turner 1902-83
- Wang Xizhe 1956-
- Ward, Artemus pseudonym of Charles Farrar Browne 1834-67
- Warhol, Andy 1928-87
- Warner, Marina Sarah 1946-
- Warner, Sir Pelham Plum 1873-1963
- Warren, Earl 1891-1974
- Warren, Harry pseudonym of Salvatore Guaragno 1893-1981
- Warren, Robert Penn 1905-89
- Washington, Booker Taliaferro 1856-1915
- Washington, George 1732-99
- Waterhouse, Keith Spencer 1929-2009
- Waterman, Pete 1947-
- Watson, James D(ewey) 1928-
- Watson, Thomas John 1874-1956
- Watson, Thomas John Jr 1914-93
- Watt, James 1736-1819
- Watts, Isaac 1674-1748
- Waugh, Auberon Alexander 1939-2001
- Waugh, Evelyn Arthur St John 1903-66
- Wavell, Archibald Percival, 1st Earl 1883-1950
- Waxman, Howard
- Weatherill, (Bruce) Bernard Weatherill, Baron 1920-2007
- Webb, (Martha) Beatrice née Potter 1858-1943
- Webb, Phyllis 1927-
- Webb, Sidney James 1859-1947
- Weber, Max 1864-1920
- Webster, Daniel 1782-1852
- Webster, John c.1580-c.1625
- Webster, Margaret 1905-72
- Wei Jingsheng 1950-
- Weighell, Sidney 1922-2002
- Weil, Simone 1909-43
- Weinberger, Caspar Willard 1917-2006
- Weizsäcker, Richard Freiherr Baron von 1920-2015
- Weldon, Fay originally Franklin Birkinshaw 1931-
- Welland, Colin 1934-
- Welles, (George) Orson 1915-85
- Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of 1769-1852
- Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge) 1866-1946
- Welsh, Irvine 1958-
- Welty, Eudora 1909-2001
- Wenger, Arsène 1949-
- Wentworth, Peter 1530-96
- Wentworth, William Charles 1790-1872
- Werefkin, Marianne 1860-1938
- Wesker, Sir Arnold 1932-
- Wesley, Charles 1707-88
- Wesley, John 1703-91
- West, Benjamin 1738-1820
- West, Kanye Omari 1977-
- West, Mae 1893-1980
- West, Nathanael pseudonym of Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein 1903-40
- West, Dame Rebecca formerly Cecily Isabel Fairfield 1892-1983
- Wharton, Edith Newbold née Jones 1861-1937
- Whately, Richard 1787-1863
- Whistler, James (Abbott) McNeill 1834-1903
- Whitbread, Samuel 1758-1815
- White, Andrew Dickson 1832-1918
- White, Edmund 1940-
- White, E(lwyn) B(rooks) 1899-1985
- White, George Malcolm 1920-2011
- White, Patrick Victor Martindale 1912-90
- White, Theodore H(arold) 1915-86
- White, Thomas 1550-1624
- Whitehead, Hal
- Whitehorn, Katharine 1926-
- Whitelaw, William Stephen Ian, 1st Viscount 1918-99
- Whiteman, Paul 1891-1967
- Whiteread, Rachel 1963-
- Whiting, George 1884-1943
- Whitlam, (Edward) Gough 1916-2014
- Whitman, Christine Todd 1946-
- Whitman, Walt(er) 1819-91
- Whittier, John Greenleaf 1807-92
- Whitton, Charlotte 1896-1975
- Whymper, Edward 1840-1911
- Widdecombe, Anne 1947-
- Wiener, Norbert 1894-1964
- Wiesel, Elie 1928-
- Wiggins, Sir Bradley Marc 1980-
- Wilberforce, Samuel 1805-73
- Wilbur, Richard 1921-
- Wilcox, Ella Wheeler 1850-1919
- Wilde, Jane Francesca née Elgee 1826-96
- Wilde, Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills 1854-1900
- Wilder, Billy (Samuel) 1906-2002
- Wilder, Thornton Niven 1897-1975
- Wilding, Michael 1912-79
- Wilhelm II, Kaiser 1859-1941
- Wilkinson, Anne 1910-61
- Wilkinson, Jonny 1979-
- Will, George Frederick 1941-
- William of Poitiers 11c.
- William of Wykeham 1324-1404
- William III also called William of Orange 1650-1702
- William, Duke of Cambridge, Prince 1982-
- Williams, (Hiram) Hank 1923-53
- Williams, Harry Abbott 1919-2006
- Williams, Raymond 1921-88
- Williams, Robin 1952-2014
- Williams, Shirley Vivien Teresa Brittain Williams, Baroness 1930-
- Williams, Tennessee Thomas Lanier 1911-83
- Williams, Venus 1980-
- Williams, William Carlos 1883-1963
- Williamson, Roy 1937-90
- Willis, Bruce 1955-
- Willkie, Wendell Lewis 1892-1944
- Wilmer, Val(erie) 1941-
- Wilson, A(ndrew) N(orman) 1950-
- Wilson, Sir Angus Frank Johnstone 1931-91
- Wilson, Charles called ‘Engine Charlie’ 1890-1961
- Wilson, David Gordon 1928-
- Wilson, Edmund 1895-1972
- Wilson, Edward O(sborne) 1929-
- Wilson, Ernest 1876-1930
- Wilson of Rievaulx, (James) Harold Wilson, Baron 1916-95
- Wilson, Michael 1937-
- Wilson, (Thomas) Woodrow 1856-1924
- Wimperis, Arthur 1874-1953
- Winchell, Walter 1897-1972
- Winfrey, Oprah 1954-
- Winkworth, Catherine 1827-78
- Winner, Langdon 1944-
- Winner, Michael 1935-2013
- Winterson, Jeanette 1959-
- Wisdom, Sir Norman 1915-2010
- Witte, Sergei Yulevich 1849-1915
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann 1889-1951
- Wittig, Monique 1935-2003
- Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville) also known as Plum 1881-1975
- Wogan, Sir Terry 1938-
- Wolf, Naomi 1962-
- Wolfe, James 1727-59
- Wolfe, Thomas Clayton 1900-38
- Wolfe, Tom (Thomas Kennerley) 1931-
- Wollstonecraft, Mary also known as Mrs Godwin 1759-97
- Wolpert, Lewis 1929-
- Wolstenholme, Kenneth 1920-2002
- Wood, Victoria 1953-
- Woodcock, George 1912-95
- Woodman, Marion 1928-
- Woodroofe, Thomas 1899-1978
- Woods, Donald 1933-2001
- Woods, Tiger 1975-
- Woodsworth, James Shaver 1874-1942
- Wooldridge, Adrian 1959-
- Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia née Stephen 1882-1941
- Woollcott, Alexander Humphreys 1887-1943
- Wordsworth, William 1770-1850
- Wotton, Sir Henry 1568-1639
- Wozniak, Stephen Gary 1950-
- Wragg, Ted (Edward) Conrad 1938-2005
- Wright, Sir Almroth Edward 1861-1947
- Wright, Betsey 1943-
- Wright, Frank Lloyd 1867-1959
- Wright, James C Jr 1922-
- Wright, Judith Arundell also known as Judith Wright McKinney 1915-2000
- Wright, Kenyon 1932-99
- Wright, Orville and Wright, Wilbur 1871-1948, 1867-1912
- Wriston, Walter Bigelow 1919-2005
- Wu-ti 157-87 BC
- Wyatt, Sir Thomas (the Elder) 1503-42
- Wycherley, William c.1640-1716
- Wycliffe, John c.1330-1384
- Wyeth, Andrew Newell 1917-2009
- Wylie, Betty Jane 1931-
- Wyman, Jane originally Sarah Jane Fulks 1914-2007
- x
- Xenophon c.435-c.354 bc
- y
- Yarborough, Ralph 1903-96
- Yeats, Georgie née Hyde-Lees 1892-1968
- Yeats, W(illiam) B(utler) 1865-1939
- Yellen, Jack 1892-1991
- Yeltsin, Boris 1931-2007
- Yevtushenko, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich 1932-
- Yokoi, Shoichi 1915-97
- York, Sarah, Duchess of 1959-
- Yost, Elwy 1925-2011
- Young, Arthur 1741-1820
- Young, Brigham 1801-77
- Young, Douglas 1913-73
- Young, Edward 1683-1765
- Yourcenar, Marguerite pseudonym of Marguerite de Crayencour 1903-87
- Yousafzai, Malala 1997-
- Yüan Mei 1716-98
- z
- Zangwill, Israel 1864-1926
- Zatopek, Emil 1922-2000
- Zeldin, Theodore 1933-
- Zel’dovich, Yakov 1914-87
- Zhang Jie 1937-
- Zhao Zhenkai pen name Beo Dao 1949-
- Zhivkov, Todor 1911-98
- Zhou Enlai or Chou En-Lai 1898-1975
- Zia Ul-Haq, Mohammed 1924-88
- Zidane, Zinedine 1972-
- Zoeller, Fuzzy 1951-
- Zola, Émile 1840-1902
- Zolotow, Maurice 1913-91
- Zuckerberg, Mark Elliot 1984-
- Zuckerman, Solly Zuckerman, Baron 1904-84
- Zwerin, Mike 1930-2010
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