| 100% | RITADOVE | 8 | "Through the Ivory Gate" novelist who was US poet laureate from 1993-95 |
| 44% | RITA | 4 | Dove who was the U.S. poet laureate |
| 41% | MONA | 4 | Pulitzer-winner Van Duyn, who was US Poet Laureate in 1992-3 |
| 37% | BILLCLINTON | 11 | Left-handed politician who was US president from 1993 to 2001: 2 wds. |
| 37% | GEORGEHWBUSH | 12 | Left-handed politician who was US president from 1989 to 1993: 4 wds. |
| 36% | RENO | 4 | Janet who was the US Attorney General, 1993-2001 |
| 36% | AMANDA | 6 | Gorman who was the first National Youth Poet Laureate (2017) |
| 36% | RENO | 4 | Janet who was the Attorney General from 1993 to 2001 |
| 35% | TONIMORRISON | 12 | "Beloved" novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in the year 1993: 2 wds. |
| 35% | JAMESPATTERSON | 14 | Bestselling crime novelist who was honored with the Literarian Award from the National Book Foundation (2 wds.) |
| 35% | SPINDLER | 8 | Michael ___, German businessman who was the CEO of Apple from 1993 to 1996 |
| 34% | ADA | 3 | Limón who is the first Latina to be Poet Laureate of the United States |
| 34% | GARRYKASPAROV | 13 | Russian-born chess master who was the World Champion from 1985 to 1993: 2 wds. |
| 34% | JOHN | 4 | ___ Sculley, former president of PepsiCo who was the CEO of Apple from 1983 to 1993 |
| 34% | RUMI | 4 | 13th-century Persian mystic who is one of the best-selling poets in the U.S. |
| 33% | LUCILLECLIFTON | 14 | Two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist who was Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1979 to 1985 (2 wds.) |
| 33% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote the line "But we loved with a love that was more than love" |
| 32% | RITADOVE | 8 | United States Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995 (2 wds.) |
| 32% | SALMANRUSHDIE | 13 | "The Satanic Verses" novelist who was exiled from India from 1989 to 2000: 2 wds. |
| 32% | BILLCLINTON | 11 | U.S. president from 1993 to 2001 who was born August 19, 1946 (2 wds.) |
| 31% | LOUISEGLUCK | 11 | "The Wild Iris" poet from the US who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020: 2 wds. |
| 31% | GRACEPALEY | 10 | Author and activist who wrote, “It is the poet’s responsibility to learn the truth from the powerless” |
| 31% | ADALIMON | 8 | Poet laureate who wrote The Hurting Kind |
| 31% | DANIELLESTEEL | 13 | Novelist who is the fourth best-selling fiction writer of all time |
| 31% | MONAVANDUYN | 11 | United States Poet Laureate from 1992 to 1993 (3 wds.) |
| 31% | ABIGAILADAMS | 12 | US First Lady from 1797 to 1801 who was also the Second Lady from 1789 to 1797: 2 wds. |
| 31% | BETTYFORD | 9 | US First Lady from 1974 to 1977 who was also the Second Lady from 1973 to 1974: 2 wds. |
| 31% | ELANA | 5 | ___ Meyers, who in 2015 was part of the first world champion team from the US in women's bobsled |
| 30% | KERRY | 5 | John who was US Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017 |
| 30% | TOLSTOY | 7 | Russian novelist who came from the aristocracy |