Browse Namesakes
This is a list of namesakes in which the category is Notable Writers; and the gender is male
| Name | Lifespan | Other Names | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abdulrazak Gurnah | 1948- |  | |
| Abraham Goldfaden | 1840-1908 | (Avram, Avrum) | |
| Achmat Dangor | 1948-2020 | | |
| Adam Mickiewicz | 1798-1855 | (Bernard) | |
| Adolf Brand | 1874-1945 | (Gustav, Adolph, Franz) | |
| A. de Herz | 1887-1936 | (Adolf, Edmund, George) | |
| Adolf Heyduk | 1835-1923 | | |
| Adolf Hoffmeister | 1902-1973 | | |
| Adolf Paul | 1863-1943 | (Georg) | |
| Adolf Friedrich von Schack | 1815-1894 | | |
| Adolph Green | 1914-2002 | | |
| Aeschylus | 525-456 BC | (Aischylos) | |
| Aesop | c. 620-c. 564 BC | (Aisopos) | |
| Aharon Appelfeld | 1932-2018 | (Ervin) | |
| Ahmad ibn Fadlan | ?-9xx | | |
| Ain Kaalep | 1926-2020 | | |
| Aksel Sandemose | 1899-1965 | (Axel) | |
| Alain Locke | 1885-1954 | (LeRoy) | |
| Alan Hollinghurst | 1954- | | |
| A. A. Milne | 1882-1956 | (Alan, Alexander) | |
| Alan Moore | 1953- | | |
| Albert Camus | 1913-1960 | | |
| Albert Mol | 1917-2004 | | |
| Alberto Moravia | 1907-1990 | | |
| Alcaeus of Mytilene | c. 625-c. 580 BC | (Alkaios) | |
| Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963 | | |
| Aleksandr Blok | 1880-1921 | (Alexander) | |
| Aleksandr Pushkin | 1799-1837 | (Alexander) | |
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 1918-2008 | | |
| Aleksandre Qazbegi | 1848-1893 | (Alexander) | |
| Alex Haley | 1921-1992 | (Alexander, Murray, Palmer) | |
| Alexander Pope | 1688-1744 | | |
| Alexandre Dumas | 1802-1870 | | |
| Alexandre Dumas fils | 1824-1895 | | |
| Alfred de Musset | 1810-1857 | | |
| Alfred Tennyson | 1809-1892 | | |
| Algernon Blackwood | 1869-1951 | | |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne | 1837-1909 | | |
| Abu Nuwas al-Hasan al-Hakami | c. 756-c. 814 | (Abu Nuwas) | |
| Ali-Shir Nava'i | 1441-1501 | (Alisher) | |
| Allen Ginsberg | 1926-1997 | | |
| Alphonse Daudet | 1840-1897 | | |
| Alphonse de Lamartine | 1790-1869 | | |
| Alvin Toffler | 1928-2016 | | |
| Ambrose Bierce | 1842-c. 1914 | | |
| Amir Khusrau | 1253-1325 | | |
| Amos Oz | 1939-2018 | | |
| Anacreon | c. 575-c. 495 BC | (Anakreon) | |
| Anatole France | 1844-1924 | | |
| André Breton | 1896-1966 | | |
| André Brink | 1935-2015 | (Philippus) | |
| André Gide | 1869-1951 | | |
| André Malraux | 1901-1976 | | |
| André Maurois | 1885-1967 | | |
| Andrzej Sapkowski | 1948- | | |
| Andy Razaf | 1895-1973 | (Andriamanantena, Paul) | |
| Ante Kovačić | 1854-1889 | | |
| Ante Tomić | 1970- | | |
| Anthony Bourdain | 1956-2018 | (Michael) | |
| Anthony Burgess | 1917-1993 | | |
| Anthony Horowitz | 1955- | | |
| Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | 1900-1944 | | |
| Anton Chekhov | 1860-1904 | | |
| Anton Koolhaas | 1912-1992 | | |
| Antonin Artaud | 1896-1948 | | |
| Antun Šoljan | 1932-1993 | | |
| Apollonius of Rhodes | ?-2xx BC | | |
| Apuleius | c. 125-180 | (Lucius) | |
| Archilochus | c. 680-c. 645 BC | | |
| Aristophanes | c. 446-c. 386 BC | | |
| Arna Bontemps | 1902-1973 | (Wendell) | |
| Arnon Grunberg | 1971- | | |
| Arsen Dedić | 1938-2015 | (Arsenije) | |
| Arthur C. Clarke | 1917-2008 | (Charles) | |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | 1859-1930 | | |
| Arthur Miller | 1915-2005 | | |
| Arthur Rimbaud | 1854-1891 | | |
| Arthur Schnitzler | 1862-1931 | | |
| August Šenoa | 1838-1881 | | |
| August Strindberg | 1849-1912 | | |
| August Wilson | 1945-2005 | | |
| Li Bai | 701-762 | (Po) | |
| Barry Unsworth | 1930-2012 | | |
| Matsuo Bashō | 1644-1694 | | |
| Ben Jonson | 1572-1637 | (Benjamin) | |
| Ben Okri | 1959- | | |
| Benito Pérez Galdós | 1843-1920 | | |
| Benjamin Zephaniah | 1958-2023 | (Obadiah, Iqbal) | |
| Beppe Wolgers | 1928-1986 | (John, Bertil) | |
| Bernard MacLaverty | 1942- | | |
| Bernard Malamud | 1914-1986 | | |
| J. Bernlef | 1937-2012 | (Henk) | |
| Bertolt Brecht | 1898-1956 | | |
| Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson | 1832-1910 | | |
| Bob Kane | 1915-1998 | (Robert) | |
| Bohumil Hrabal | 1914-1997 | | |
| Booth Tarkington | 1869-1946 | | |
| Boris Akunin | 1956- | (Grigori) | |
| Boris Pasternak | 1890-1960 | | |
| Boris Vian | 1920-1959 | (Vernon) | |
| Botho Strauß | 1944- | | |
| Boy Lornsen | 1922-1995 | | |
| Bram Stoker | 1847-1912 | (Abraham) | |
| Brand Whitlock | 1869-1934 | (Joseph) | |
| Brandon Sanderson | 1975- | | |
| Breyten Breytenbach | 1939- | | |
| Buckminster Fuller | 1895-1983 | (Richard) | |
| Burkhard Driest | 1939-2020 | | |
| Lord Byron | 1788-1824 | (George, Gordon) | |
| Callimachus | c. 310-c. 240 BC | (Kallimachos) | |
| Camille Flammarion | 1842-1925 | (Nicolas) | |
| Camilo José Cela | 1916-2002 | | |
| Carl Sandburg | 1878-1967 | (August) | |
| Carl Spitteler | 1845-1924 | | |
| Carl Van Vechten | 1880-1964 | | |
| Carlo Collodi | 1826-1890 | | |
| Carlo Goldoni | 1707-1793 | (Osvaldo) | |
| Carlos Castaneda | 1925-1998 | | |
| Carlos Fuentes | 1928-2012 | | |
| Caryl Phillips | 1958- | | |
| Cato the Elder | 234-149 BC | | |
| Catullus | 84-54 BC | (Gaius) | |
| Chabua Amirejibi | 1921-2013 | (Mzechabuk) | |
| Charles Baudelaire | 1821-1867 | | |
| Charles Bukowski | 1920-1994 | | |
| Charles Dickens | 1812-1870 | | |
| Charles Eastman | 1858-1939 | (Hakadah, Ohíye S'a, Alexander) | |
| Charles Perrault | 1628-1703 | | |
| Wu Cheng'en | c. 1500-1582 | | |
| Chinghiz Aitmatov | 1928-2008 | | |
| Chinua Achebe | 1930-2013 | (Albert, Chinụalụmọgụ) | |
| Chrétien de Troyes | c. 1135-c. 1183 | | |
| Christopher Hope | 1944- | | |
| Christopher Marlowe | 1564-1593 | (Kit) | |
| Christopher Paolini | 1983- | | |
| Chuck Palahniuk | 1962- | (Charles) | |
| Claude McKay | 1890-1948 | (Festus, Claudius) | |
| Claude Simon | 1913-2005 | | |
| Clive Cussler | 1931-2020 | | |
| C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963 | (Clive, Staples) | |
| Codrin Ţapu | 1973- | (Ştefan) | |
| Colin Dexter | 1930-2017 | (Norman) | |
| Colm Tóibín | 1955- | | |
| Colson Whitehead | 1969- | | |
| Conrad Aiken | 1889-1973 | (Potter) | |
| Constantijn Huygens | 1596-1687 | | |
| Cormac McCarthy | 1933-2023 | (Charles, Joseph) | |
| C. Buddingh' | 1918-1985 | (Cornelis, Kees) | |
| Cornelius Nepos | c. 110-c. 25 BC | | |
| Countee Cullen | 1903-1946 | (LeRoy) | |
| Czesław Miłosz | 1911-2004 | | |
| Dale Carnegie | 1888-1955 | (Harbison) | |
| Dalton Trumbo | 1905-1976 | (James) | |
| Damon Galgut | 1963- | | |
| Dan Brown | 1964- | (Daniel) | |
| Chief Dan George | 1899-1981 | (Geswanouth) | |
| Daniel Defoe | c. 1660-1731 | | |
| Daniel Handler | 1970- | (Lemony) | |
| Dante Alighieri | c. 1265-1321 | (Durante) | |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti | 1828-1882 | | |
| Dario Fo | 1926-2016 | | |
| Dashiell Hammett | 1894-1961 | | |
| David Baddiel | 1964- | (Lionel) | |
| D. H. Lawrence | 1885-1930 | (David, Herbert) | |
| David Malouf | 1934- | | |
| David Mitchell | 1969- | (Stephen) | |
| David Seidler | 1937- | | |
| David Storey | 1933-2017 | (Malcolm) | |
| David Foster Wallace | 1962-2008 | | |
| Dean Koontz | 1945- | (Ray) | |
| Denis Diderot | 1713-1784 | | |
| Denis Johnson | 1949-2017 | (Hale) | |
| D. J. Enright | 1920-2002 | (Dennis, Joseph) | |
| Derek Humphry | 1930- | | |
| Derek Walcott | 1930-2017 | | |
| Derviš Sušić | 1925-1990 | | |
| Derviş Zaim | 1964- | | |
| Dhanpat Rai "Premchand" Srivastava | 1880-1936 | (Premchand) | |
| Dick Bruna | 1927-2017 | (Hendrikus, Magdalenus) | |
| Diogenes Laertius | ?-2xx | | |
| Dolf Verroen | 1928- | (Rudolf, Johan) | |
| Domien Sleeckx | 1818-1901 | (Jan, Lambrecht, Dominicus) | |
| Don DeLillo | 1936- | (Donald, Richard) | |
| Donald Barthelme | 1931-1989 | | |
| Douglas Adams | 1952-2001 | | |
| Drew Hayden Taylor | 1962- | | |
| Dudley Randall | 1914-2000 | | |
| Dylan Thomas | 1914-1953 | | |
| Eckhart Tolle | 1948- | (Ulrich, Leonard) | |
| Eddy C. Bertin | 1944-2018 | (Charly) | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | 1875-1950 | | |
| E. L. Doctorow | 1931-2015 | (Edgar, Lawrence) | |
| Edgar Allan Poe | 1809-1849 | | |
| Edmondo De Amicis | 1846-1908 | | |
| Edmund Spenser | c. 1552-1599 | | |
| Eduard Douwes Dekker "Multatuli" | 1820-1887 | | |
| Eduard Uspensky | 1937-2018 | | |
| Edward Carpenter | 1844-1929 | | |
| E. M. Forster | 1879-1970 | (Edward, Morgan) | |
| Edward Lear | 1812-1888 | | |
| Edward Said | 1935-2003 | | |
| Elias Canetti | 1905-1994 | | |
| Elie Wiesel | 1928-2016 | | |
| E. B. White | 1899-1985 | (Elwyn, Brooks) | |
| Emil Cioran | 1911-1995 | (Mihai) | |
| Émile Zola | 1840-1902 | | |
| Emyr Humphreys | 1919-2020 | | |
| Endre Ady | 1877-1919 | | |
| Enis Batur | 1952- | (Ahmet) | |
| Enn Vetemaa | 1936-2017 | | |
| Ennius | c. 239-c. 169 BC | (Quintus) | |
| Eric Knight | 1897-1943 | (Mowbray) | |
| Erich Maria Remarque | 1898-1970 | | |
| Erik Axel Karlfeldt | 1864-1931 | | |
| Ernest Hemingway | 1899-1961 | (Miller) | |
| E. T. A. Hoffmann | 1776-1822 | (Ernst, Theodor, Amadeus) | |
| Ernst Jünger | 1895-1998 | | |
| Etgar Keret | 1967- | | |
| Etheridge Knight | 1931-1991 | | |
| Etienne Leroux | 1922-1989 | | |
| Eugen Kumičić | 1850-1904 | | |
| Eugène Ionesco | 1909-1994 | | |
| Eugene O'Neill | 1888-1953 | | |
| Eugenio Montale | 1896-1981 | | |
| Euripides | c. 480-406 BC | | |
| Eyvind Johnson | 1900-1976 | | |
| Ezra Pound | 1885-1972 | (Weston, Loomis) | |
| Fan Noli | 1882-1965 | (Theofan, Stilian) | |
| Farley Mowat | 1921-2014 | (McGill) | |
| Federico García Lorca | 1898-1936 | | |
| Felix Timmermans | 1886-1947 | (Leopoldus, Maximilianus) | |
| F. Bordewijk | 1884-1965 | (Ferdinand) | |
| Ferdowsi | 940-1020 | | |
| Fernando Pessoa | 1888-1935 | | |
| Filippo Tommaso Marinetti | 1876-1944 | | |
| Florjan Lipuš | 1937- | | |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1896-1940 | (Francis, Key) | |
| Francisco de Quevedo | 1580-1645 | | |
| François-Marie Arouet "Voltaire" | 1694-1778 | | |
| François-René de Chateaubriand | 1768-1848 | | |
| François de La Rochefoucauld | 1613-1680 | | |
| François Mauriac | 1885-1970 | | |
| François Rabelais | c. 1494-1553 | | |
| François Villon | c. 1431-c. 1463 | | |
| Frank Herbert | 1920-1986 | (Franklin) | |
| Frank Kermode | 1919-2010 | | |
| Frank McCourt | 1930-2009 | | |
| Frank Yerby | 1916-1991 | (Garvin) | |
| Frans Eemil Sillanpää | 1888-1964 | | |
| Franz Kafka | 1883-1924 | | |
| Frédéric Mistral | 1830-1914 | | |
| Frederick Forsyth | 1938- | | |
| Friedrich Dürrenmatt | 1921-1990 | | |
| Friedrich Hölderlin | 1770-1843 | | |
| Friedrich Schiller | 1759-1805 | (Johann, Christoph) | |
| Friedrich Schlegel | 1772-1829 | | |
| Du Fu | 712-770 | | |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 1821-1881 | | |
| Gabriel García Márquez | 1927-2014 | | |
| Gabriele D'Annunzio | 1863-1938 | | |
| Gaius Helvius Cinna | ?-44 BC | | |
| Galaktion Tabidze | 1892-1959 | | |
| Garth Ennis | 1970- | | |
| Gaston Leroux | 1868-1927 | | |
| Geoffrey of Monmouth | c. 1100-c. 1155 | | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | 1343-1400 | | |
| Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg "Novalis" | 1772-1801 | (Novalis) | |
| George MacDonald | 1824-1905 | | |
| George R. R. Martin | 1948- | (Raymond, Richard) | |
| George Orwell | 1903-1950 | (Eric) | |
| George Plimpton | 1927-2003 | (Ames) | |
| George Saunders | 1958- | | |
| George Schuyler | 1895-1977 | (Samuel) | |
| George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950 | | |
| Georges Bataille | 1897-1962 | | |
| Georges Simenon | 1903-1989 | | |
| Gerald Vizenor | 1934- | (Robert) | |
| Gerard Reve | 1923-2006 | | |
| Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero | 1585-1618 | | |
| Gerhart Hauptmann | 1862-1946 | | |
| Gerrit Komrij | 1944-2012 | | |
| Giacomo Casanova | 1725-1798 | | |
| Giacomo Leopardi | 1798-1837 | | |
| G. K. Chesterton | 1874-1936 | (Gilbert, Keith) | |
| Giorgio Vasari | 1511-1574 | | |
| Giorgos Seferis | 1900-1971 | | |
| Giosuè Carducci | 1835-1907 | | |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | 1313-1375 | | |
| Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa | 1896-1957 | | |
| Goderdzi Chokheli | 1954-2007 | | |
| Godfried Bomans | 1913-1971 | | |
| Goran Tribuson | 1948- | | |
| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | 1729-1781 | | |
| Graham Greene | 1904-1991 | (Henry) | |
| Graham Swift | 1949- | (Colin) | |
| Guillaume Apollinaire | 1880-1918 | | |
| Guillaume de Machaut | c. 1300-1377 | | |
| Guillermo Arriaga | 1958- | | |
| Günter Grass | 1927-2015 | | |
| Gustave Flaubert | 1821-1880 | | |
| Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer | 1836-1870 | | |
| Guus Kuijer | 1942- | | |
| Guy de Maupassant | 1850-1893 | | |
| Ha Jin | 1956- | (Xuěfēi) | |
| Hafez | c. 1325-1390 | (Shams-od-Din, Mohammad) | |
| Halldór Laxness | 1902-1998 | (Kiljan) | |
| Hanoch Levin | 1943-1999 | | |
| Hans Christian Andersen | 1805-1875 | | |
| Hans Andreus | 1926-1977 | (Johan, Wilhelm) | |
| Harold Courlander | 1908-1996 | | |
| Harold Pinter | 1930-2008 | | |
| Harold Robbins | 1916-1997 | | |
| Harry Martinson | 1904-1978 | | |
| Harry Mulisch | 1927-2010 | | |
| Haruki Murakami | 1949- | | |
| Hector Malot | 1830-1907 | | |
| Hedd Wyn | 1887-1917 | (Ellis, Humphrey) | |
| Heinrich Böll | 1917-1985 | | |
| Heinrich Heine | 1797-1856 | | |
| Heinrich von Kleist | 1777-1811 | | |
| Hendrik van Veldeke | c. 1150-c. 1184 | (Heinrich) | |
| Henning Mankell | 1948-2015 | (Georg) | |
| Henri Charrière | 1906-1973 | | |
| Henrik Ibsen | 1828-1906 | | |
| Henrik Pontoppidan | 1857-1943 | | |
| O. Henry | 1862-1910 | (William, Sydney) | |
| H. Rider Haggard | 1856-1925 | (Henry) | |
| Henry James | 1843-1916 | | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1807-1882 | | |
| Henry Miller | 1891-1980 | | |
| Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862 | | |
| Henryk Sienkiewicz | 1846-1916 | | |
| H. G. Wells | 1866-1946 | (Herbert, George) | |
| Herman Melville | 1819-1891 | | |
| Herman Wouk | 1915-2019 | | |
| Hermann Hesse | 1877-1962 | | |
| Hesiod | ?-c. 700 BC | (Hesiodos) | |
| Hisham Matar | 1970- | | |
| Hoimar von Ditfurth | 1921-1989 | (Gerhard, Friedrich, Ernst) | |
| Homer | ?-c. 700 BC | | |
| Honoré de Balzac | 1799-1850 | | |
| Horace | 65-8 BC | (Quintus) | |
| Hovik Vardoumian | 1940- | | |
| H. P. Lovecraft | 1890-1937 | (Howard, Phillips) | |
| Hrvoje Hitrec | 1943- | | |
| Hugo Claus | 1929-2008 | (Maurice, Julien) | |
| Hunter S. Thompson | 1937-2005 | (Stockton) | |
| Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar | 1864-1944 | | |
| Ian Fleming | 1908-1964 | | |
| Ian McEwan | 1948- | (Russell) | |
| Ian Rankin | 1960- | | |
| Ilya Ehrenburg | 1891-1967 | | |
| Imre Kertész | 1929-2016 | | |
| Isaac Asimov | 1920-1992 | | |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer | 1902-1991 | | |
| Ishmael Reed | 1938- | (Scott) | |
| Isidore Lucien Ducasse "Comte de Lautréamont" | 1846-1870 | | |
| Ismail Kadare | 1936- | | |
| Italo Calvino | 1923-1985 | | |
| Ivan Aralica | 1930- | | |
| Ivan Bunin | 1870-1953 | | |
| Ivan Gundulić | 1589-1638 | | |
| Ivan Kušan | 1933-2012 | | |
| Ivan Slamnig | 1930-2001 | | |
| Ivan Turgenev | 1818-1883 | | |
| Ivan Yefremov | 1908-1972 | | |
| Ivica Đikić | 1977- | | |
| Ivo Andrić | 1892-1975 | | |
| Ivo Brešan | 1936-2017 | | |
| Jacinto Benavente | 1866-1954 | | |
| Jack Higgins | 1929-2022 | (Harry, Henry) | |
| Jack Kerouac | 1922-1969 | (Jean, Louis) | |
| Jack Ketchum | 1946-2018 | (Dallas, William) | |
| Jack London | 1876-1916 | (John, Griffith) | |
| Jacob Cats | 1577-1660 | | |
| Jacob Grimm | 1785-1863 | | |
| Jacob van Maerlant | c. 1235-c. 1300 | | |
| Jacques Prévert | 1900-1977 | | |
| Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi | 1207-1273 | | |
| James Agee | 1909-1955 | (Rufus) | |
| James Baldwin | 1924-1987 | (Arthur) | |
| J. M. Barrie | 1860-1937 | (James, Matthew) | |
| James Fenimore Cooper | 1789-1851 | | |
| J. G. Farrell | 1935-1979 | (James, Gordon) | |
| James Hilton | 1900-1954 | | |
| James Weldon Johnson | 1871-1938 | | |
| James Joyce | 1882-1941 | | |
| James Kelman | 1946- | | |
| James A. Michener | 1907-1997 | (Albert) | |
| James Patterson | 1947- | | |
| James Welch | 1940-2003 | (Phillip) | |
| Jami | 1414-1492 | (Nur ad-Din, 'Abd ar-Rahman) | |
| Jamiluddin Aali | 1925-2015 | (Nawabzada, Mirza, Ahmed) | |
| Jan Terlouw | 1931- | (Cornelis) | |
| Jan Vos | 1612-1667 | | |
| Jan Wolkers | 1925-2007 | | |
| Janko Leskovar | 1861-1949 | | |
| Janko Polić Kamov | 1886-1910 | | |
| Janusz Korczak | 1878-1942 | (Henryk) | |
| Jappe Nilssen | 1870-1931 | (Jacob) | |
| Jaroslav Hašek | 1883-1923 | | |
| Jaroslav Seifert | 1901-1986 | | |
| Jay Asher | 1975- | | |
| Jean Cocteau | 1889-1963 | | |
| Jean de La Fontaine | 1621-1695 | | |
| Jean Genet | 1910-1986 | | |
| J. M. G. Le Clézio | 1940- | (Jean, Marie, Gustave) | |
| Jean Baptiste Poquelin "Molière" | 1622-1673 | | |
| Jean Racine | 1639-1699 | | |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | 1905-1980 | | |
| Jean Toomer | 1894-1967 | (Nathan, Pinchback) | |
| Jef Nys | 1927-2009 | (Jozef) | |
| Jeffery Deaver | 1950- | | |
| Jeffrey Eugenides | 1960- | (Kent) | |
| Jennifer Egan | 1962- | | |
| J. D. Salinger | 1919-2010 | (Jerome, David) | |
| Jo Nesbø | 1960- | | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 1749-1832 | | |
| Johannes V. Jensen | 1873-1950 | (Vilhelm) | |
| John Arden | 1930-2012 | | |
| John Banville | 1945- | | |
| John Berger | 1926-2017 | | |
| John Cheever | 1912-1982 | (William) | |
| J. M. Coetzee | 1940- | (John, Maxwell) | |
| John Galsworthy | 1867-1933 | | |
| John Green | 1977- | | |
| John Grisham | 1955- | | |
| John Hersey | 1914-1993 | (Richard) | |
| John Irving | 1942- | | |
| John Jakes | 1932-2023 | (Jay, William) | |
| John Keats | 1795-1821 | | |
| John le Carré | 1931-2020 | (David, Moore) | |
| John McGahern | 1934-2006 | | |
| John Milton | 1608-1674 | | |
| John Phillips Marquand | 1893-1960 | | |
| John Reed | 1887-1920 | (Jack, Silas) | |
| John Rollin Ridge | 1827-1867 | (Cheesquatalawny, Yellow Bird) | |
| John Ruskin | 1819-1900 | | |
| John Steinbeck | 1902-1968 | (Ernst) | |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | 1892-1973 | (John, Ronald, Reuel) | |
| John Kennedy Toole | 1937-1969 | | |
| John Trudell | 1946-2015 | | |
| John Updike | 1932-2009 | (Hoyer) | |
| John Edgar Wideman | 1941- | | |
| Jon Fosse | 1959- | | |
| Jonathan Safran Foer | 1977- | | |
| Jonathan Franzen | 1959- | (Earl) | |
| Jonathan Stroud | 1970- | | |
| Jonathan Swift | 1667-1745 | | |
| Joost van den Vondel | 1587-1679 | | |
| Joost Zwagerman | 1963-2015 | (Johannes, Jacobus, Willebrordus) | |
| Jordan Peterson | 1962- | (Bernt) | |
| Jorge Amado | 1912-2001 | | |
| Jorge Luis Borges | 1899-1986 | | |
| Joris-Karl Huysmans | 1848-1907 | (Charles, Marie, Georges) | |
| José Echegaray | 1832-1916 | | |
| José Saramago | 1922-2010 | | |
| Joseph Boyden | 1966- | | |
| Joseph Brodsky | 1940-1996 | | |
| Joseph Conrad | 1857-1924 | | |
| Joseph Heller | 1923-1999 | | |
| Joseph Roth | 1894-1939 | | |
| Josh Malerman | 19xx- | | |
| Josip Kozarac | 1858-1906 | | |
| Jostein Gaarder | 1952- | | |
| Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan | 1976- | | |
| Juan Ramón Jiménez | 1881-1958 | | |
| Jules Deelder | 1944-2019 | (Anton) | |
| Jules Verne | 1828-1905 | | |
| Julian Barnes | 1946- | (Patrick) | |
| Julio Cortázar | 1914-1984 | | |
| Juliusz Słowacki | 1809-1849 | | |
| Junot Díaz | 1968- | | |
| Jurica Pavičić | 1965- | | |
| Juš Kozak | 1892-1964 | | |
| Justin Cartwright | 1945-2018 | (James) | |
| Juvenal | ?-1xx | (Decimus) | |
| Kalidasa | ?-4xx | | |
| Karel Čapek | 1890-1938 | | |
| Karl Adolph Gjellerup | 1857-1919 | | |
| Karl May | 1842-1912 | | |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | 1954- | | |
| Kees van Kooten | 1941- | (Cornelis, Reinier) | |
| Ken Follett | 1949- | (Kenneth) | |
| Kenneth Grahame | 1859-1932 | | |
| Kenneth Rexroth | 1905-1982 | (Charles, Marion) | |
| Ōe Kenzaburō | 1935-2023 | | |
| Kevin Henkes | 1960- | | |
| Khaled Hosseini | 1965- | | |
| Khalil Gibran | 1883-1931 | (Kahlil) | |
| Kingsley Amis | 1922-1995 | | |
| Kjartan Fløgstad | 1944- | | |
| Knut Hamsun | 1859-1952 | | |
| Kolau Nadiradze | 1895-1990 | (Nikoloz) | |
| Konstantine Gamsakhurdia | 1893-1975 | | |
| Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis | 1863-1933 | (Constantine) | |
| Korney Chukovsky | 1882-1969 | | |
| Kurt Vonnegut | 1922-2007 | | |
| Lado Asatiani | 1917-1943 | (Vladimir) | |
| L. Ron Hubbard | 1911-1986 | (Lafayette, Ronald) | |
| Langston Hughes | 1901-1967 | (James, Mercer) | |
| Larry McMurtry | 1936-2021 | (Jeff) | |
| Lavrenti Ardaziani | 1815-1870 | | |
| Lawrence Durrell | 1912-1990 | | |
| Leo Tolstoy | 1828-1910 | (Lev) | |
| Leon de Winter | 1954- | | |
| Leon Uris | 1924-2003 | | |
| Leopold von Sacher-Masoch | 1836-1895 | | |
| Lewis Carroll | 1832-1898 | | |
| Lloyd C. Douglas | 1877-1951 | (Cassel) | |
| Lope de Vega | 1562-1635 | | |
| Lorenzo Valla | c. 1407-1457 | | |
| Louis Aragon | 1897-1982 | | |
| Louis Bromfield | 1896-1956 | | |
| Louis-Ferdinand Céline | 1894-1961 | (Auguste) | |
| Louis Couperus | 1863-1923 | | |
| Lucan | 39-65 | (Marcus) | |
| Lucebert | 1924-1994 | (Lubertus, Jacobus) | |
| Lucian of Samosata | c. 125-c. 180 | | |
| Lucius Livius Andronicus | c. 284-c. 204 BC | | |
| Ludovic Halévy | 1834-1908 | | |
| Ludovico Ariosto | 1474-1533 | | |
| Luigi Pirandello | 1867-1936 | | |
| Luigi Pulci | 1432-1484 | | |
| Luís de Camões | c. 1524-1580 | | |
| L. Frank Baum | 1856-1919 | (Lyman) | |
| Lytton Strachey | 1880-1932 | (Giles) | |
| Maarten 't Hart | 1944- | | |
| Magnus Mills | 1954- | | |
| Mahmut Makal | 1930-2018 | | |
| Máirtín Ó Cadhain | 1906-1970 | | |
| Máirtín Ó Direáin | 1910-1988 | | |
| Malcolm Bradbury | 1932-2000 | (Stanley) | |
| Malcolm Cowley | 1898-1989 | | |
| Malcolm Gladwell | 1963- | | |
| Manly Wade Wellman | 1903-1986 | | |
| Mansur al-Hallaj | c. 858-922 | (Mansour) | |
| Marcel Proust | 1871-1922 | | |
| Marcus Terentius Varro | 116-27 BC | | |
| Mario Puzo | 1920-1999 | | |
| Mario Vargas Llosa | 1936- | | |
| Màrius Serra | 1963- | | |
| Marius von Mayenburg | 1972- | | |
| Mark Twain | 1835-1910 | (Samuel) | |
| Markus Zusak | 1975- | | |
| Marlon James | 1970- | | |
| Marten Toonder | 1912-2005 | | |
| Martial | 40-102 | (Marcus) | |
| Martin Amis | 1949-2023 | (Louis) | |
| Martin Caidin | 1927-1997 | | |
| Martin Walser | 1927-2023 | (Johannes) | |
| Mate Balota | 1898-1963 | (Mijo) | |
| Mato Lovrak | 1899-1974 | | |
| Maurice Leblanc | 1864-1941 | | |
| Maurice Maeterlinck | 1862-1949 | | |
| Maurice Sendak | 1928-2012 | | |
| Max Brod | 1884-1968 | | |
| Maxim Gorky | 1868-1936 | (Alexei) | |
| Menander | 342-291 BC | | |
| Meša Selimović | 1910-1982 | (Mehmed) | |
| Michael Chabon | 1963- | | |
| Michael Crichton | 1942-2008 | | |
| Michael Cunningham | 1952- | | |
| Michael Dorris | 1945-1997 | (Milou, Anthony) | |
| Michael Ende | 1929-1995 | | |
| Michael V. Gazzo | 1923-1995 | (Vincenzo) | |
| Michael Ignatieff | 1947- | (Grant) | |
| Michael Moorcock | 1939- | (John) | |
| Michael Ondaatje | 1943- | | |
| Michael Scott Rohan | 1951-2018 | | |
| Michel de Nostredame | 1503-1566 | (Nostradamus) | |
| Michel Houellebecq | 1956- | | |
| Michel de Montaigne | 1533-1592 | | |
| Mick Jackson | 1960- | | |
| Mickey Spillane | 1918-2006 | (Frank, Morrison) | |
| Miguel Ángel Asturias | 1899-1974 | | |
| Miguel de Cervantes | 1547-1616 | | |
| Mihai Eminescu | 1850-1889 | | |
| Mihály Vörösmarty | 1800-1855 | | |
| Mika Waltari | 1908-1979 | | |
| Mikhail Bulgakov | 1891-1940 | | |
| Mikhail Lermontov | 1814-1841 | | |
| Mikha'il Na'ima | 1889-1988 | | |
| Mikhail Sholokhov | 1905-1984 | | |
| Milan Kundera | 1929-2023 | | |
| Miljenko Jergović | 1966- | | |
| Milovan Vitezović | 1944-2022 | | |
| Mirko Kovač | 1938-2013 | | |
| Miro Gavran | 1961- | | |
| Miroslav Krleža | 1893-1981 | | |
| M. R. James | 1862-1936 | (Montague, Rhodes) | |
| Mordecai Richler | 1931-2001 | | |
| Muhammad "Fuzuli" bin Suleyman | 1483-1556 | (Fuzuli) | |
| Muhammad Iqbal | 1877-1938 | | |
| Muhsin al-Ramli | 1967- | | |
| Naguib Mahfouz | 1911-2006 | | |
| Nasir al-Din al-Tusi | 1201-1274 | | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1804-1864 | | |
| N. Scott Momaday | 1934- | (Navarre) | |
| Nazım Hikmet | 1902-1963 | | |
| Neale Donald Walsch | 1943- | | |
| Nedim Gürsel | 1951- | | |
| Neil Gaiman | 1960- | | |
| Neil Simon | 1927-2018 | (Marvin) | |
| Nicasio Álvarez de Cienfuegos | 1764-1809 | | |
| Nicholas Sparks | 1965- | | |
| Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux | 1636-1711 | | |
| Nikolai Gogol | 1809-1852 | | |
| Nikos Kazantzakis | 1883-1957 | | |
| Nizami Ganjavi | c. 1141-1209 | (Nezami) | |
| Noël Coward | 1899-1973 | (Peirce) | |
| Norman Mailer | 1923-2007 | (Kingsley) | |
| Octave Mirbeau | 1848-1917 | | |
| Octavio Paz | 1914-1998 | | |
| Odysseas Elytis | 1911-1996 | | |
| Ogden Nash | 1902-1971 | | |
| Olen Steinhauer | 1970- | | |
| Oliver Goldsmith | 1728-1774 | | |
| Omar Khayyám | 1048-1131 | (Umar) | |
| Orhan Pamuk | 1952- | (Ferit) | |
| Osamu Dazai | 1909-1948 | (Shūji) | |
| Oscar Hijuelos | 1951-2013 | (Jerome) | |
| Oscar Wilde | 1854-1900 | | |
| Otokar Březina | 1868-1929 | (Otakar, Václav) | |
| Ovid | 43 BC-17 | (Publius) | |
| Pablo Neruda | 1904-1973 | | |
| Pádraic Ó Conaire | 1882-1928 | | |
| Paolo Iashvili | 1894-1937 | (Pavle) | |
| Pär Lagerkvist | 1891-1974 | | |
| Patrick McCabe | 1955- | | |
| Patrick Modiano | 1945- | | |
| Patrick Rothfuss | 1973- | (James) | |
| Patrick Süskind | 1949- | | |
| Patrick White | 1912-1990 | | |
| Paul Auster | 1947- | | |
| Paul Biegel | 1925-2006 | | |
| Paul Celan | 1920-1970 | | |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar | 1872-1906 | | |
| Paul Éluard | 1895-1952 | | |
| Paul Heyse | 1830-1914 | | |
| Paul Scott | 1920-1978 | | |
| Paul Valéry | 1871-1945 | (Ambroise, Toussaint, Jules) | |
| Paul van Loon | 1955- | | |
| Paul Verlaine | 1844-1896 | | |
| Paulo Coelho | 1947- | | |
| Pavao Pavličić | 1946- | | |
| Pedro Calderón de la Barca | 1600-1681 | | |
| P. G. Wodehouse | 1881-1975 | (Pelham, Grenville) | |
| P. H. Newby | 1918-1997 | (Percy, Howard) | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | 1792-1822 | | |
| Peretz Hirschbein | 1880-1948 | | |
| Peretz Markish | 1895-1952 | (Davidovich) | |
| Perez Hilton | 1978- | | |
| Petar Šegedin | 1909-1998 | | |
| Petar Zoranić | 1508-1569 | | |
| Peter Benchley | 1940-2006 | | |
| Peter Carey | 1943- | (Philip) | |
| Peter Handke | 1942- | | |
| Peter van Gestel | 1937-2019 | | |
| Petrarch | 1304-1374 | (Francesco) | |
| Petronius | c. 27-66 | (Gaius) | |
| Philip K. Dick | 1928-1982 | (Kindred) | |
| Philip Kerr | 1956-2018 | (Ballantyne) | |
| Philip Pullman | 1946- | | |
| Philip Reeve | 1966- | | |
| Philip Roth | 1933-2018 | (Milton) | |
| Philip Sidney | 1554-1586 | | |
| DBC Pierre | 1961- | (Peter, Warren) | |
| Pierre Beaumarchais | 1732-1799 | | |
| Pierre Corneille | 1606-1684 | | |
| Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft | 1581-1647 | | |
| Pindar | c. 522-443 BC | (Pindaros, Pindarus) | |
| Plautus | 254-184 BC | (Titus) | |
| Pliny the Younger | 61-c. 113 | (Gaius) | |
| Primo Levi | 1919-1987 | (Michele) | |
| Prosper Mérimée | 1803-1870 | | |
| Prudens van Duyse | 1804-1859 | (Prudentius, Joannes, Maria) | |
| Quintilian | 35-100 | (Marcus) | |
| Rabindranath Tagore | 1861-1941 | | |
| Rafael Sabatini | 1875-1950 | | |
| Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1945-1982 | | |
| Rainer Maria Rilke | 1875-1926 | (René, Karl, Wilhelm, Johann, Josef) | |
| Ralph Ellison | 1913-1994 | (Waldo) | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882 | | |
| Ranko Marinković | 1913-2001 | | |
| Ray Bradbury | 1920-2012 | | |
| Raymond Benson | 1955- | | |
| Raymond Carver | 1938-1988 | (Clevie) | |
| Raymond Chandler | 1888-1959 | | |
| Raymond van de Klundert "Kluun" | 1964- | | |
| Reginald Hill | 1936-2012 | (Charles) | |
| Remco Campert | 1929-2022 | | |
| René Goscinny | 1926-1977 | | |
| Reşat Nuri Güntekin | 1889-1956 | | |
| Reyer Anslo | 1622-1669 | | |
| Rhijnvis Feith | 1753-1824 | | |
| Richard Adams | 1920-2016 | | |
| Richard Bach | 1936- | | |
| Richard Ford | 1944- | | |
| Richard Hooker | 1924-1997 | (Hiester) | |
| Richard Bruce Nugent | 1906-1987 | | |
| Richard Powers | 1957- | | |
| Richard Russo | 1949- | | |
| Richard Scarry | 1919-1994 | | |
| Richard Wagamese | 1955-2017 | | |
| Richard Wilbur | 1921-2017 | (Purdy) | |
| Richard Wright | 1908-1960 | (Nathaniel) | |
| Rick Riordan | 1964- | (Richard) | |
| Ring Lardner | 1885-1933 | (Ringgold, Wilmer) | |
| Roald Dahl | 1916-1990 | | |
| Robert Browning | 1812-1889 | | |
| Robert Burns | 1759-1796 | (Rabbie) | |
| Robert Frost | 1874-1963 | | |
| Robert Hayden | 1913-1980 | (Asa, Bundy) | |
| Robert A. Heinlein | 1907-1988 | (Anson) | |
| Robert Jordan | 1948-2007 | (James, Oliver) | |
| Robert Ludlum | 1927-2001 | | |
| Robert Munsch | 1945- | (Norman) | |
| Robert Musil | 1880-1942 | | |
| Robert M. Pirsig | 1928-2017 | (Maynard) | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | 1850-1894 | | |
| R. L. Stine | 1943- | (Robert, Lawrence) | |
| Robert James Waller | 1939-2017 | | |
| Robert Walser | 1878-1956 | | |
| Robert Penn Warren | 1905-1989 | | |
| Robertson Davies | 1913-1995 | | |
| Roddy Doyle | 1958- | | |
| R. D. Wingfield | 1928-2007 | (Rodney, David) | |
| Roger Martin du Gard | 1881-1958 | | |
| Rohinton Mistry | 1952- | | |
| Romain Gary | 1914-1980 | (Roman) | |
| Romain Rolland | 1866-1944 | | |
| Romesh Gunesekera | 1954- | | |
| Ronald Giphart | 1965- | | |
| Rubén Darío | 1867-1916 | (Félix) | |
| Rudolph Fisher | 1897-1934 | (John, Chauncey) | |
| Rudyard Kipling | 1865-1936 | | |
| Rupert Brooke | 1887-1915 | (Chawner) | |
| Rupert Holmes | 1947- | (David) | |
| Rupert Hughes | 1872-1956 | | |
| Rupert Sheldrake | 1942- | (Alfred) | |
| Rupert Thomson | 1955- | | |
| Russell Banks | 1940-2023 | | |
| Rutger Bregman | 1988- | (Christiaan) | |
| Ryūnosuke Akutagawa | 1892-1927 | | |
| Saadi Shirazi | 1210-c. 1291 | | |
| Sabahattin Ali | 1907-1948 | | |
| Marquis de Sade | 1740-1814 | (Donatien, Alphonse, François) | |
| Şadi Üçüncü | 1948-2004 | | |
| Saint-John Perse | 1887-1975 | | |
| Sait Faik Abasıyanık | 1906-1954 | | |
| Saken Seifullin | 1894-1939 | | |
| Şakir Bilgin | 1951- | | |
| Salman Rushdie | 1947- | | |
| Salvatore Quasimodo | 1901-1968 | | |
| Sam Shepard | 1943-2017 | (Samuel) | |
| Samuel Beckett | 1906-1989 | | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1772-1834 | | |
| Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784 | | |
| Samuel Pepys | 1633-1703 | | |
| Sándor Márai | 1900-1989 | | |
| Saul Bellow | 1915-2005 | | |
| Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac | 1619-1655 | | |
| Seamus Deane | 1940-2021 | | |
| Seamus Heaney | 1939-2013 | | |
| Seán Ó Faoláin | 1900-1991 | (John, Francis, Proinsias) | |
| Sebastian Barry | 1955- | | |
| Sebastian Faulks | 1953- | | |
| Selwyn Jepson | 1899-1989 | | |
| Seneca the Elder | 54 BC-39 | (Lucius) | |
| Sergei Yesenin | 1895-1925 | | |
| Sergiusz Piasecki | 1901-1964 | | |
| Sextus Propertius | c. 50-c. 15 BC | | |
| Shams Tabrizi | 1185-1248 | | |
| Sherman Alexie | 1966- | (Joseph) | |
| Sherwood Anderson | 1876-1941 | (Berton) | |
| Shmuel Yosef Agnon | 1888-1970 | | |
| Sholem Aleichem | 1859-1916 | | |
| Shota Rustaveli | c. 1160-c. 1220 | | |
| Sidney Sheldon | 1917-2007 | | |
| Siegfried Lenz | 1926-2014 | | |
| Simon Armitage | 1963- | | |
| Simon Carmiggelt | 1913-1987 | | |
| Simon Vestdijk | 1898-1971 | | |
| Simonides of Ceos | c. 556-468 BC | | |
| Sinclair Lewis | 1885-1951 | (Harry) | |
| Slobodan Novak | 1924-2016 | (Ante) | |
| Slobodan Šnajder | 1948- | | |
| Snorri Sturluson | 1179-1241 | | |
| Soman Chainani | 1979- | | |
| Sophocles | c. 497-c. 406 BC | | |
| Spalding Gray | 1941-2004 | (Rockwell) | |
| Stan Lee | 1922-2018 | (Stanley, Martin) | |
| Stanisław Lem | 1921-2006 | | |
| Stanisław Wyspiański | 1869-1907 | (Mateusz, Ignacy) | |
| Stanley Middleton | 1919-2009 | | |
| Statius | c. 45-c. 96 | (Publius) | |
| Stefan Zweig | 1881-1942 | | |
| Stendhal | 1783-1842 | (Marie, Henri) | |
| Stéphane Mallarmé | 1842-1898 | | |
| Stephen Graham Jones | 1972- | | |
| Stephen King | 1947- | | |
| Stieg Larsson | 1954-2004 | | |
| Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani | 1658-1725 | | |
| Sully Prudhomme | 1839-1907 | | |
| Taliesin | ?-c. 600 | | |
| Taras Shevchenko | 1814-1861 | | |
| Tennessee Williams | 1911-1983 | (Thomas, Lanier) | |
| Terence | 195-159 BC | (Publius) | |
| Terry Pratchett | 1948-2015 | (Terence) | |
| Tevfik Fikret | 1867-1915 | | |
| Theodor Geisel "Dr. Seuss" | 1904-1991 | | |
| Theodor Mommsen | 1817-1903 | | |
| Theodore Roethke | 1908-1963 | (Huebner) | |
| Théophile Gautier | 1811-1872 | | |
| Thomas Berger | 1924-2014 | (Louis) | |
| Thomas Bernhard | 1931-1989 | | |
| T. S. Eliot | 1888-1965 | (Thomas, Stearns) | |
| Thomas Hardy | 1840-1928 | | |
| Thomas Keneally | 1935- | | |
| Thomas Kinsella | 1928-2021 | | |
| Thomas Ligotti | 1953- | | |
| Thomas Mann | 1875-1955 | | |
| Thomas Pynchon | 1937- | (Ruggles) | |
| Thornton Wilder | 1897-1975 | (Niven) | |
| Tibor Fischer | 1959- | | |
| Tibullus | 55-19 BC | | |
| Tim Winton | 1960- | (Timothy, John) | |
| Timothy Mo | 1950- | | |
| Titsian Tabidze | 1895-1937 | | |
| Tom Clancy | 1947-2013 | (Thomas) | |
| Tomas Tranströmer | 1931-2015 | | |
| Tomislav Ladan | 1932-2008 | | |
| Tomson Highway | 1951- | | |
| Tor Edvin Dahl | 1943- | | |
| Torquato Tasso | 1544-1595 | | |
| Tristan Tzara | 1896-1963 | | |
| Truman Capote | 1924-1984 | | |
| Tulsidas | 1511-1623 | | |
| Umberto Eco | 1932-2016 | | |
| Upton Sinclair | 1878-1968 | (Beall) | |
| Üzeyir Hacıbəyov | 1885-1948 | | |
| Vachel Lindsay | 1879-1931 | (Nicholas) | |
| Václav Havel | 1936-2011 | | |
| Vahagn Davtyan | 1922-1996 | | |
| Valmiki | ?-5xx BC | | |
| Verner von Heidenstam | 1859-1940 | | |
| Vicente Aleixandre | 1898-1984 | | |
| Victor Hugo | 1802-1885 | | |
| V. S. Naipaul | 1932-2018 | (Vidiadhar, Surajprasad) | |
| Viktor Car Emin | 1870-1963 | | |
| Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius | 1882-1954 | | |
| Vincas Kudirka | 1858-1899 | | |
| Vine Deloria Jr. | 1933-2005 | (Victor) | |
| Virgil | 70-19 BC | (Publius) | |
| Vítězslav Hálek | 1835-1874 | | |
| Vjekoslav Kaleb | 1905-1996 | | |
| Vjenceslav Novak | 1859-1905 | | |
| Vladimir Mayakovsky | 1893-1930 | | |
| Vladimir Nabokov | 1899-1977 | | |
| Vladimir Nazor | 1876-1949 | | |
| Waldo Frank | 1889-1967 | (David) | |
| Wallace Stegner | 1909-1993 | (Earle) | |
| Wallace Stevens | 1879-1955 | | |
| Wallace Thurman | 1902-1934 | (Henry) | |
| Walt Whitman | 1819-1892 | (Walter) | |
| Walter Scott | 1771-1832 | | |
| Washington Irving | 1783-1859 | | |
| Wang Wei | 699-759 | | |
| Wilbur Smith | 1933-2021 | | |
| Wilhelm Grimm | 1786-1859 | | |
| Willem Elsschot | 1882-1960 | (Alfons) | |
| Willem Frederik Hermans | 1921-1995 | | |
| William Trevor | 1928-2016 | | |
| William Blake | 1757-1827 | | |
| William Peter Blatty | 1928-2017 | | |
| William Boyd | 1952- | | |
| William Stanley Braithwaite | 1878-1962 | (Beaumont) | |
| William S. Burroughs | 1914-1997 | (Seward) | |
| W. Bruce Cameron | 1960- | (William) | |
| William Faulkner | 1897-1962 | (Cuthbert) | |
| William Gibson | 1948- | | |
| William Golding | 1911-1993 | | |
| W. P. Kinsella | 1935-2016 | (William, Patrick) | |
| W. Somerset Maugham | 1874-1965 | (William) | |
| William Shakespeare | 1564-1616 | | |
| William Styron | 1925-2006 | (Clark) | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray | 1811-1863 | | |
| William Wharton | 1925-2008 | (Albert) | |
| William Carlos Williams | 1883-1963 | | |
| William Wordsworth | 1770-1850 | | |
| William Butler Yeats | 1865-1939 | | |
| Willy Vandersteen | 1913-1990 | (Willebrord, Jan, Frans, Maria) | |
| Winston Graham | 1908-2003 | (Mawdsley) | |
| Witi Ihimaera | 1944- | (Tame) | |
| Władysław Reymont | 1867-1925 | (Stanisław) | |
| Wole Soyinka | 1934- | (Akinwande, Oluwole) | |
| Wolfram von Eschenbach | c. 1170-c. 1220 | | |
| Gao Xingjian | 1940- | | |
| Cao Xueqin | 1710-1765 | | |
| Lu Xun | 1881-1936 | (Shuren) | |
| Mo Yan | 1955- | (Moye) | |
| Yanka Kupala | 1882-1942 | (Ivan) | |
| Yann Martel | 1963- | | |
| Yaşar Kemal | 1923-2015 | (Sadık) | |
| Kawabata Yasunari | 1899-1972 | | |
| Yehonatan Geffen | 1947-2023 | | |
| Jin Yong | 1924-2018 | (Louis, Leung-yung) | |
| Qu Yuan | c. 340-278 BC | | |
| Yukio Mishima | 1925-1970 | (Kimitake) | |
| Zalman Shazar | 1889-1974 | (Shneur) | |
| Zane Grey | 1872-1939 | (Pearl) | |
| Željko Ivanković | 1954- | | |
| Zoran Ferić | 1961- | | |
| Zygmunt Krasiński | 1812-1859 | (Napoleon, Stanisław, Adam, Feliks) | |