- 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
- Philips, Ambrose
- Philips, John
- Phillips, Samuel
- Picken, Andrew
- Pierpont, John
- Pike, Albert
- Pindar, Peter
- Pinkerton, John
- Pinkney, Edward Coate
- Piozzi, Hester Lynch (Salusbury)
- Planché, James Robinson
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Pollok, Robert
- Pomfret, John
- Pope, Alexander
- Pordage, Samuel
- Porson, Richard
- Porter, Jane
- Porter, Anna Maria
- Powell, Frederick York
- Praed, Winthrop Mackworth
- Prescott, William Hickling
- Price, Richard
- Prideaux, Humphrey
- Priestly, Joseph
- Pringle, Thomas
- Prior, Matthew
- Procter, Adelaide Ann
- Procter, Bryan Waller ("Barry Cornwall")
- Prout, Father
- Prynne, William
- Psalmanazar, George
- Purchas, Samuel
- Pusey, Edward Bouverie
- Puttenham, George
- Pye, Henry James
- Quarles, Francis
- Radcliffe, Mrs. Ann (Ward)
- "Raine, Allen" (Mrs. Beynon Puddicombe)
- Raleigh, Sir Walter
- Ramée, Louise de la ("Ouida")
- Ramsay, Allan
- Ramsay, Edward Bannerman
- Randolph, Thomas
- Rapin de Thoyras, Paul
- Raspe, Rudolf Eric
- Rawlinson, George
- Rawlinson, Sir Henry Cresswicke
- Ray, John
- Read, Thomas Buchanan
- Reade, Charles
- Reed, Henry
- Reeve, Clara
- Reeve, Henry
- Reid, Mayne
- Reid, Thomas
- Reid, Sir Thomas Wemyss
- Reynolds, Sir Joshua
- Rhodes, William Barnes
- Rhymer, Thomas The
- Ricardo, David
- Rice, James
- Rich, Barnabe
- Richardson, Samuel