- Lennox, Charlotte (Ramsay)
- Leslie, or Lesley, John
- L'Estrange, Sir Roger
- Lever, Charles James
- Lewes, George Henry
- Lewis, Sir George Cornewall
- Lewis, Matthew Gregory
- Leyden, John
- Liddell, Henry George
- Liddon, Henry Parry
- Lightfoot, Joseph Barber
- Lillo, George
- Lindsay, or Lyndsay, Sir David
- Lindsay, or Lindesay, Robert
- Lingard, John
- Linton, Mrs. Eliza Lynn
- Lister, Thomas Henry
- Lithgow, William
- Livingstone, David
- Lloyd, Robert
- Locke, David Ross (Petroleum V. Nasby)
- Locke, John
- Locker-Lampson, Frederick
- Lockhart, John Gibson
- Lodge, Thomas
- Logan, John
- Long, George
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Lovelace, Richard
- Lover, Samuel
- Lowell, James Russell
- Lowth, Robert
- Lydgate, John
- Lyell, Sir Charles
- Lyly, John
- Lyndesay, Sir D.
- Lyte, Henry Francis
- Lyttelton, George, 1st Lord Lyttelton
- Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton-Bulwer, 1st Lord
- Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer, 1st Earl of Lytton
- Macaulay, Mrs. Catherine (Sawbridge)
- Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Lord
- Maccarthy, Denis Florence
- M'Cosh, James
- M'Crie, Thomas
- MacDonald, George
- MacKay, Charles
- Mackenzie, Sir George
- Mackenzie, Henry
- Mackintosh, Sir James
- Macklin, Charles
- M'Lennan, John Ferguson
- "Macleod, Fiona"
- MacLeod, Norman
- MacNeill, Hector
- MacPherson, James
- Maginn, William
- Mahony, Francis Sylvester (Father Prout)
- Maine, Sir Henry James Sumner
- Mair, or Major, John
- Maitland, Sir Richard
- Malcolm, Sir John
- Mallet, originally Malloch, David
- Malone, Edmund
- Malory, Sir Thomas
- Malthus, Thomas Robert
- Mandeville, Bernard de
- Mandeville, Sir John
- Mangan, James Clarence
- Manley, Mrs. Mary de la Riviere
- Manning, Anne
- Manning, Henry Edward
- Robert de Brunne
- Mannyng, Robert, or Robert de Brunne
- Mansel, Henry Longueville
- Map, or Mapes, Walter de
- Markham, Gervase
- Marlowe, Christopher
- Marmion, Shackerley
- Marryat, Frederick
- Marsh, Herbert
- Marston, John
- Marston, Philip Bourke
- Martin, Sir Theodore
- Martineau, Harriet
- Martineau, James
- Marvell, Andrew
- Mason, William
- Massey, Gerald
- Massinger, Philip
- Masson, David
- Mather, Cotton
- Mathias, Thomas James
- Maturin, Charles Robert
- Maurice, Frederick Denison
- Maxwell, William Hamilton
- Max-Müller, Friedrich
- May, Thomas
- May, Sir Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Farnborough
- Mayne, Jasper