- 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
- 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