- 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
- 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