- Moir, David Macbeth
- Monboddo, James Burnett, Lord
- Montagu, Elizabeth (Robinson)
- Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (Pierrepont)
- Montgomerie, Alexander
- Montgomery, James
- Montgomery, Robert
- Moore, Edward
- Moore, John
- Moore, Thomas
- More, Hannah
- More, Henry
- More, Sir Thomas
- Morgan, Lady (Sydney Owenson)
- Morier, James Justinian
- Morison, James Cotter
- Morley, Henry
- Morris, Sir Lewis
- Morris, William
- Morton, Thomas
- Motherwell, William
- Motley, John Lothrop
- Moultrie, John
- Mulock, Dinah Maria (Mrs. Craik)
- Munday, Anthony
- Mure, William
- Murphy, Arthur
- Murray, Lindley
- Myers, Frederic William Henry
- Nabbes, Thomas
- Nairne, Carolina (Oliphant), Baroness
- Napier, Mark
- Napier, Sir William Francis Patrick
- Nash, Thomas
- Nayler, James
- Neal, John
- Neaves, Charles, Lord
- Neckham, Alexander
- Newcastle, Margaret, Duchess of
- Newman, Francis William
- Newman, John Henry
- Newton, Sir Isaac
- Newton, John
- Nichol, John
- Noel, Hon. Roden Berkeley Wriothesley
- Norris, John
- North, Sir Thomas
- Norton, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (Sheridan)
- Norton, Charles Eliot, Ll.D., D.C.L., etc.
- Occam or Ockham, William
- Occleve
- Ockley, Simon
- O'Keeffe, John
- Oldham, John
- Oldmixon, John
- Oldys, William
- Oliphant, Laurence
- Oliphant, Mrs. Margaret Oliphant (Wilson)
- Opie, Mrs. Amelia (Alderson)
- Ordericus Vitalis
- Orm, or Ormin
- Orme, Robert
- Orrery, Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of
- O'Shaughnessy, Arthur William Edgar
- Otway, Cæsar
- Otway, Thomas
- Ouida
- Outram, George
- Overbury, Sir Thomas
- Owen, John
- Owen, Robert
- Oxford, Edward de Vere, Earl of
- Paine, Thomas
- Painter, William
- Paley, William
- Palgrave, Sir Francis
- Palgrave, Francis Turner
- Paltock, Robert
- Pardoe, Julia
- Paris, Matthew
- Park, Mungo
- Parker, Theodore
- Parkman, Francis
- Parnell, Thomas
- Parr, Dr. Samuel
- Pater, Walter Horatio
- Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton
- Pattison, Mark
- Paulding, James Kirke
- Payn, James
- Peacock, Thomas Love
- Pearson, Charles Henry
- Pearson, John
- Pecock, Reginald
- Peele, George
- Penn, William
- Pennant, Thomas
- Pepys, Samuel
- Percival, James Gates
- Percy, Thomas