- 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
- Edwards, Richard
- Egan, Pierce
- Eggleston, Edward
- "Eliot, George"
- Elizabeth, Queen
- Elliot, Miss Jean
- Elliot, Ebenezer
- Ellis, George
- Ellwood, Thomas
- Elphinstone, Mountstuart
- Elwin, Whitwell
- Elyot, Sir Thomas
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Ercildoun, Thomas of, or "Thomas the Rhymer"
- Erigena, or Scotus, John
- Erskine, Ralph
- Erskine, Thomas
- Etherege, Sir George
- Evans, Mary Ann or Marian ("George Eliot")
- Evelyn, John
- Ewing, Mrs. Juliana Horatia (Gatty)
- Faber, Frederick William
- Fabyan, Robert
- Fairfax, Edward
- Falconer, William
- Fanshawe, Catherine Maria
- Fanshawe, Sir Richard
- Faraday, Michael
- Farmer, Richard
- Farquhar, George
- Farrar, Frederic William
- Fawcett, Henry
- Fawkes, Francis
- Feltham, Owen
- Fenton, Elijah
- Ferguson, Adam