- 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
- 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