| 100% | PETER | 5 | & 6D British dramatist whose stage works include Zigger Zagger and The Apprentices |
| 52% | IONESCO | 7 | Eugene —, Romanian dramatist whose stage works include Exit the King and Rhinoceros |
| 51% | FUGARD | 6 | Athol —, South African dramatist whose stage works include The Road to Mecca and The Island |
| 41% | LIVINGS | 7 | Henry —, British dramatist whose stage plays include Eh? and Nil Carborundum |
| 40% | ARISTOPHANES | 12 | Greek comic dramatist whose works include The Birds and The Frogs |
| 38% | DAVENANT | 8 | William —, poet and playwright whose stage works include The Platonick Lovers |
| 38% | EDGAR | 5 | David —, playwright whose stage works include Maydays and Pentecost |
| 35% | NOELCOWARD | 10 | Playwright whose stage works include Present Laughter and Design for Living |
| 34% | THOMASDEKKER | 12 | English poet and dramatist whose works include the plays Match Me in London and The Shoemaker's Holiday |
| 34% | SIMS | 4 | Charles —, British painter whose works include 1928's I Am the Abyss and I Am Light |
| 34% | SOPHOCLES | 9 | Greek dramatist whose works include Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus |
| 33% | WATERLOW | 8 | Ernest Albert —, British painter whose works include The Banks of the River Loing and Suffolk Marshes |
| 33% | ETHEREGE | 8 | George —, 17th-century English dramatist whose works include The Man of Mode |
| 33% | FLETCHER | 8 | John —, Jacobean dramatist whose plays include The Island Princess and The Faithful Shepherdess |
| 32% | KEEFFE | 6 | Barrie —, playwright whose stage works include Bastard Angel and Not Fade Away |
| 32% | BRECHT | 6 | Bertolt —, dramatist whose stage plays include Mr Puntila and his Man Matti |
| 32% | EMLYN | 5 | & 22A Welsh actor-dramatist whose stage plays include Night Must Fall and The Corn Is Green |
| 31% | GILL | 4 | Eric —, British sculptor and typographer whose works include 1914 print Slaughter of the Innocents |
| 31% | EYSENCK | 7 | Hans —, Berlin-born British psychologist whose works include 1985's Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire |
| 31% | BAKST | 5 | Leon —, Russian painter and stage designer whose works include 1913 watercolour The Butterfly |
| 31% | HAWKING | 7 | Stephen —, British theoretical physicist whose books include The Nature of Space and Time |
| 31% | MARCCHAGALL | 11 | Artist whose works include 1929’s The Woman and the Roses |
| 31% | TURK | 4 | Gavin —, British sculptor and conceptual artist whose installations include 2004's The Golden Thread |
| 31% | TURK | 4 | Gavin —, British sculptor and conceptual artist whose installations include 2004’s The Golden Thread |
| 31% | BOB | 3 | & 21A Animator whose works for television included the series Roobarb and Henry's Cat |