- Cousin, Anne Ross (Cundell)
- Coverdale, Miles
- Cowley, Abraham
- Cowper, William
- Coxe, William
- Crabbe, George
- Craigie, Mrs. Pearl Mary Teresa (Richards)
- Craik, George Lillie
- Cranmer, Thomas
- Crashaw, Richard
- Crawford, Francis Marion
- Creasy, Sir Edward Shepherd
- Creech, Thomas
- Creighton, Mandell
- Croker, John Wilson
- Croker, Thomas Crofton
- Croly, George
- Crowe, Catherine (Stevens)
- Crowe, Eyre Evans
- Crowe, Sir Joseph Archer
- Crowe, William
- Crowne, John
- Cudworth, Ralph
- Cumberland, Richard
- Cummins, Maria Susanna
- Cunningham, Allan
- Curtis, George William
- Cynewulf
- Dalling and Bulwer, William Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer, 1st Lord
- Dampier, William
- Dana, Richard Henry
- Dana, Richard Henry, Jr.
- Daniel, Samuel
- Darley, George
- Darwin, Charles Robert
- Darwin, Erasmus
- Dasent, Sir George Webbe
- Davenant, or D'Avenant, Sir William
- Davidson, John
- Davies, John
- Davies, Sir John
- Davis, or Davys, John
- Davis, Thomas Osborne
- Davy, Sir Humphrey
- Day, John
- Day, Thomas
- Defoe, Daniel
- Dekker, Thomas
- De Lolme, John Louis
- Deloney, Thomas
- De Morgan, Augustus
- Denham, Sir John
- Dennis, John
- De Quincey, Thomas
- Dermody, Thomas
- De Vere, Aubrey Thomas
- Dibdin, Charles
- Dickens, Charles
- Digby, Sir Kenelm
- Dilke, Charles Wentworth
- Disraeli, B.
- D'Israeli, Isaac
- Dixon, Richard Watson
- Dixon, William Hepworth
- Dobell, Sydney Thompson
- Dodd, William
- Doddridge, Philip
- Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge ("Lewis Carroll")
- Dodsley, Robert
- Donne, John
- Doran, John
- Dorset, Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of
- Dorset, Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of, and Lord Buckhurst
- Douce, Francis
- Douglas, Gavin
- Doyle, Sir Francis Hastings
- Drake, Joseph Rodman
- Draper, John William
- Drayton, Michael
- Drummond, Henry
- Drummond, William
- Dryden, John
- Duff, Sir Mountstuart E. Grant
- Dufferin, Helen Selena (Sheridan), Countess of
- Duffy, Sir Charles Gavan
- Dugdale, Sir William
- Du Maurier, George Louis Palmella Busson
- Dunbar, William
- Dunlop, John Colin
- Duns, Scotus Johannes
- D'Urfey, Thomas
- Dwight, Timothy
- Dyce, Alexander
- Dyer, Sir Edward
- Dyer, John
- Earle, John
- Eastlake, Elizabeth, Lady (Rigby)
- Echard, Laurence
- Edgeworth, Maria
- Edwards, Jonathan