- Hume, Alexander
- Hume, David
- Hunnis, William
- Hunt, James Henry Leigh
- Hurd, Richard
- Hutcheson, Francis
- Hutchinson, Mrs. Lucy
- Hutton, Richard Holt
- Huxley, Thomas Henry
- Inchbald, Mrs. Elizabeth (Simpson)
- Ingelow, Jean
- Innes, Cosmo
- Innes, Thomas
- Ireland, William Henry
- Irving, Edward
- Irving, Washington
- James I., King of Scotland
- James, George Payne Rainsford
- Jameson, Mrs. Anna Brownell (Murphy)
- Jebb, Sir Richard Claverhouse
- Jefferies, Richard
- Jeffrey, Francis
- Jerrold, Douglas William
- Jesse, John Heneage
- Jevons, William Stanley
- Jewsbury, Geraldine Endsor
- John of Salisbury
- Johnson, Lionel
- Johnson, Samuel
- Johnston, Arthur
- Johnstone, Charles
- Jones, Ebenezer
- Jones, Ernest Charles
- Jones, Sir William
- Jonson, Ben or Benjamin
- Jortin, John
- Jowett, Benjamin
- Judd, Sylvester
- Kames, Henry Home, Lord
- Kavanagh, Julia
- Kaye, Sir John William
- Keary, Annie
- Keats, John
- Keble, John
- Keightley, Thomas
- Keith, Robert
- Kelly, Hugh
- Ken, Thomas
- Kennedy, John Pendleton
- Kennedy, Walter
- Killigrew, Thomas
- King, Henry
- Kinglake, Alexander William
- Kingsford, William
- Kingsley, Charles
- Kingsley, Henry
- Kingsley, Mary Henrietta
- Kingston, William Henry Giles
- Kirkland, Joseph
- Kitto, John
- Knight, Charles
- Knight, Henry Gally
- Knolles, Richard
- Knowles, Herbert
- Knowles, James Sheridan
- Knox, John
- Knox, Vicesimus
- Knox, William
- Kyd, Thomas
- Laidlaw, William
- Laing, David
- Laing, Malcolm
- Lamb, Lady Caroline
- Lamb, Charles
- Landon, Letitia Elizabeth
- Landor, Walter Savage
- Lane, Edward William
- Langhorne, John
- Langland, William (or William of Langley)
- Lanier, Sidney
- Lardner, Dionysius
- Latimer, Hugh
- Lauder, Sir Thomas Dick
- Law, William
- Lawrence, George Alfred
- Layamon
- Layard, Sir Austin Henry
- Lear, Edward
- Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
- Lee, Nathaniel
- Lee, Harriet
- Lee, Sophia
- Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
- Leighton, Robert
- Leland, Charles Godfrey
- Leland or Leyland, John
- Lemon, Mark
- Lennox, Charlotte (Ramsay)
- Leslie, or Lesley, John
- L'Estrange, Sir Roger