- Byron, George Gordon, 6th Lord Byron
- Byron, Henry James
- Cædmon
- Caird, Edward
- Caird, John
- Calamy, Edmund
- Calderwood, David
- Calverley, Charles Stuart
- Camden, William
- Campbell, George
- Campbell, John, 1st Lord Campbell
- Campbell, John Francis
- Campbell, Lewis
- Campbell, Thomas
- Campion, Thomas
- Canning, George
- Capgrave, John
- Carew, Richard
- Carew, Thomas
- Carey, Henry
- Carleton, William
- Carlyle, Alexander
- Carlyle, Thomas
- Carruthers, Robert
- Carte, Thomas
- Carter, Elizabeth
- Cartwright, William
- Cary, Alice
- Cary, Henry Francis
- Catlin, George
- Cave, Edward
- Cavendish, George
- Caxton, William
- Centlivre, Mrs. Susanna
- Chalkhill, John
- Chalmers, George
- Chalmers, Thomas
- Chamberlayne, William
- Chambers, Robert
- Chambers, William
- Chamier, Frederick
- Channing, William Ellery
- Chapman, George
- Chapone, Hester (Mulso)
- Charleton, Walter
- Chatterton, Thomas
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Cherry, Andrew
- Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of
- Chettle, Henry
- Child, Francis J.
- Child, Mrs. Lydia Maria (Francis)
- Chillingworth, William
- Church, Richard William
- Churchill, Charles
- Churchyard, Thomas
- Cibber, Colley
- Clare, John
- Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of
- Clarke, Charles Cowden
- Clarke, Marcus
- Clarke, Samuel
- Cleveland, John
- Clinton, Henry Fynes
- Clough, Arthur Hugh
- Cobbe, Frances Power
- Cobbett, William
- Cockburn, Henry
- Cockton, Henry
- Colenso, John William
- Coleridge, Hartley
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
- Coleridge, Sara
- Colet, John
- Collier, Jeremy
- Collins, John
- Collins, John Churton
- Collins, Mortimer
- Collins, William
- Collins, William Wilkie
- Colman, George, the Elder
- Colman, George, the Younger
- Colton, Charles Caleb
- Combe, George
- Combe, William
- Congreve, William
- Conington, John
- Constable, Henry
- Cooke, John Esten
- Cooper, James Fenimore
- Cooper, Thomas
- Corbet, Richard
- Cornwall, Barry
- Cory, William Johnson
- Coryate, or Coryatt, Thomas
- Costello, Louisa Stuart
- Cotton, Charles
- Cotton, Sir Robert Bruce
- Cousin, Anne Ross (Cundell)
- Coverdale, Miles