- Abbott, Jacob
- Abbott, John Stevens Cabot
- À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott
- Abercrombie, John
- Abercrombie, Patrick
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Lord
- Adamnan, St.
- Adams, Francis, W.L.
- Addison, Joseph
- Adolphus, John
- Ælfred
- Ælfric
- Aguilar, Grace
- Aikin, John
- Aikin, Lucy
- Ainger, Alfred
- Ainsworth, William Harrison
- Aird, Thomas
- Akenside, Mark
- Alcott, Louisa M.
- Ealhwine
- Alcuin or Ealhwine
- Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
- Alesius, Alexander
- Alexander, Mrs. Cecil F. (Humphreys)
- Alford, Henry
- Alison, Archibald
- Alison, Sir Archibald
- Allen, Charles Grant
- Allingham, William
- Allston, Washington
- Amory, Thomas
- Anderson, Alexander
- Andrewes, Lancelot
- Anstey, Christopher
- D'Arblay, Frances (Burney)
- Arbuthnot, John
- Argyll, George John Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of
- Armstrong, John, M.D.
- Arnold, Sir Edwin
- Arnold, Matthew
- Arnold, Thomas
- Ascham, Roger
- Asgill, John
- Ashmole, Elias
- Asser
- Atherstone, Edwin
- Atterbury, Francis
- Aubrey, John
- Austen, Jane
- Austin, John
- Ayton, Sir Robert
- Aytoun, William Edmonstone
- Bacon, Francis, Lord Verulam, and Viscount St. Alban's
- Bacon, Roger
- Bage, Robert
- Bagehot, Walter
- Bailey, Philip James
- Baillie, Joanna
- Baillie, Lady Grizel
- Baillie, Robert
- Bain, Alexander
- Baker, Sir Richard
- Baker, Sir Samuel White
- Bale, John
- Ballantine, James
- Ballantyne, Robert Michael
- Bancroft, George
- Banim, John
- Bannatyne, Richard
- Barbauld, Anna Letitia
- Barbour, John
- Barclay, Alexander
- Barclay, John
- Barclay, Robert
- Barham, Richard Harris
- Barlow, Joel
- Barnard, Lady Anne (Lindsay)
- Barnes, Barnabe
- Barnes, William
- Barnfield, Richard
- Barrow, Isaac
- Barton, Bernard
- Baynes, Thomas Spencer
- Baxter, Richard
- Bayly, Ada Ellen
- Bayly, Thomas Haynes
- Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of
- Beattie, James
- Beaumont, Francis
- Beaumont, Sir John
- Beckford, William
- Beddoes, Thomas Lovell
- Bede or Bæda
- Beecher, Henry Ward
- Behn, Aphra (Johnston)
- Bell, Henry Glassford
- Ballantyne, John
- Bellenden, or Ballantyne, John
- Bentham, Jeremy