- 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
- Ferguson, Sir Samuel
- Fergusson, James
- Fergusson, Robert
- Ferrier, James Frederick
- Ferrier, Susan Edmonstoune
- Field, Nathaniel
- Fielding, Henry
- Fielding, Sarah
- Filmer, Sir Robert
- Finlay, George
- Fisher, John
- Fiske, John
- Fitzgerald, Edward
- Fitzstephen, William
- Flavel, John
- Flecknoe, Richard
- Fletcher, Andrew
- Fletcher, Giles and Phineas
- Florence of Worcester
- Florio, John
- Fonblanque, Albany William
- Foote, Samuel
- Forbes, James David
- Ford, John
- Ford, Paul Leicester
- Ford, Richard
- Fordun, John
- Forster, John