| 100% | FUGARD | 6 | Athol —, South African dramatist whose stage works include The Road to Mecca and The Island |
| 45% | IONESCO | 7 | Eugene —, Romanian dramatist whose stage works include Exit the King and Rhinoceros |
| 45% | PETER | 5 | & 6D British dramatist whose stage works include Zigger Zagger and The Apprentices |
| 39% | DAVENANT | 8 | William —, poet and playwright whose stage works include The Platonick Lovers |
| 35% | MARVELL | 7 | Andrew —, 17th-century poet and satirist whose works include The Mower's Song and Last Instructions to a Painter |
| 35% | ARISTOPHANES | 12 | Greek comic dramatist whose works include The Birds and The Frogs |
| 34% | MARVELL | 7 | Andrew —, 17th-century poet and satirist whose works include The Mower’s Song and Last Instructions to a Painter |
| 34% | FLETCHER | 8 | John —, Jacobean dramatist whose plays include The Island Princess and The Faithful Shepherdess |
| 34% | BAKST | 5 | Leon —, Russian painter and stage designer whose works include 1913 watercolour The Butterfly |
| 34% | KEMBLE | 6 | Fanny —, 19th-century English stage actress and playwright whose works include Francis the First |
| 32% | EDGAR | 5 | David —, playwright whose stage works include Maydays and Pentecost |
| 32% | THOMASDEKKER | 12 | English poet and dramatist whose works include the plays Match Me in London and The Shoemaker's Holiday |
| 32% | EMLYN | 5 | & 22A Welsh actor-dramatist whose stage plays include Night Must Fall and The Corn Is Green |
| 32% | RUDKIN | 6 | David —, playwright whose works include The Triumph of Death and The Sons of Light |
| 32% | LIVINGS | 7 | Henry —, British dramatist whose stage plays include Eh? and Nil Carborundum |
| 32% | NOELCOWARD | 10 | Playwright whose stage works include Present Laughter and Design for Living |
| 32% | BROWNING | 8 | Robert —, poet whose works include How they Brought the Good News From Ghent To Aix and Love Among the Ruins |
| 32% | TIEPOLO | 7 | Giovanni Battista —, Italian painter whose works include The Chariot of Aurora and The Banquet of Cleopatra |
| 31% | BRECHT | 6 | Bertolt —, dramatist whose stage plays include Mr Puntila and his Man Matti |
| 31% | KEEFFE | 6 | Barrie —, playwright whose stage works include Bastard Angel and Not Fade Away |
| 31% | CHAGALL | 7 | Marc —, artist whose works include 1929's The Woman and the Roses |
| 31% | SCHOPENHAUER | 12 | Arthur —, German philosopher whose works include The World as Will and Idea |
| 31% | BROWNING | 8 | Robert —, poet whose works include How they Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix and The Ring and the Book |
| 31% | TITIAN | 6 | Artist of the Venetian School whose works include The Rape of Europa and The Death of Actaeon |
| 31% | SHELLEY | 7 | Percy Bysshe —, poet whose works include The Masque of Anarchy and Queen Mab |
| 31% | BOTTICELLI | 10 | Sandro —, Italian painter whose works include The Birth of Venus and Venus and Mars |