| 100% | STRINDBERG | 10 | August —, Swedish playwright whose works include The Ghost Sonata and Miss Julie |
| 46% | RUDKIN | 6 | David —, playwright whose works include The Triumph of Death and The Sons of Light |
| 42% | DAVID | 5 | & 5D Playwright whose works for children include The Gingerbread Man and The Ideal Gnome Expedition |
| 39% | JOHNANTROBUS | 12 | Playwright whose works include Captain Oates' Left Sock and Why Bournemouth? |
| 38% | DONNE | 5 | John —, English poet whose works include The Storm and The Calm |
| 38% | ARISTOPHANES | 12 | Greek comic dramatist whose works include The Birds and The Frogs |
| 38% | ANTROBUS | 8 | John —, playwright whose works include Captain Oates' Left Sock and Why Bournemouth? |
| 38% | SCHOPENHAUER | 12 | Arthur —, German philosopher whose works include The World as Will and Idea |
| 37% | SHELLEY | 7 | Percy Bysshe —, poet whose works include The Masque of Anarchy and Queen Mab |
| 37% | BOTTICELLI | 10 | Sandro —, Italian painter whose works include The Birth of Venus and Venus and Mars |
| 36% | MARCCHAGALL | 11 | Artist whose works include 1929’s The Woman and the Roses |
| 36% | WATERLOW | 8 | Ernest Albert —, British painter whose works include The Banks of the River Loing and Suffolk Marshes |
| 36% | TIEPOLO | 7 | Giovanni Battista —, Italian painter whose works include The Chariot of Aurora and The Banquet of Cleopatra |
| 36% | CHAGALL | 7 | Marc —, artist whose works include 1929's The Woman and the Roses |
| 36% | VELAZQUEZ | 9 | Diego —, Spanish painter whose works include Las Meninas and the Rokeby Venus |
| 36% | ERNST | 5 | Rudolf —, painter born in 1854 whose works include The Meal, The Metal Workers and Reading the Koran |
| 36% | ALGARDI | 7 | Alessandro —, Italian Baroque sculptor whose works include the Fuga d'Attila relief and Portrait of Camillo Pamphili |
| 36% | LORENZETTI | 10 | Ambrogio —, Sienese painter whose works include the frescoes Allegory of Bad Government and Allegory of Good Government |
| 35% | MARTIN | 6 | John —, painter whose works include 1852's The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah |
| 35% | MASACCIO | 8 | 15th-century Italian painter whose works include saints Jerome and John the Baptist |
| 35% | DAVENANT | 8 | William —, poet and playwright whose stage works include The Platonick Lovers |
| 35% | NOELCOWARD | 10 | Playwright whose stage works include Present Laughter and Design for Living |
| 35% | EDGAR | 5 | David —, playwright whose stage works include Maydays and Pentecost |
| 35% | ROSSETTI | 8 | Christina —, 19th-century English poet whose works include Remember and The Lambs of Grasmere |
| 35% | BOGLE | 5 | Eric —, Scotland-born folk singer-songwriter whose works include And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda |
| 35% | BURNEJONES | 10 | Edward —, Pre-Raphaelite painter whose works include 1884 oil King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid |
| 34% | BOSCH | 5 | Hieronymus —, Dutch painter whose works include triptychs The Last Judgment and The Garden of Earthly Delights |
| 34% | DELATOUR | 8 | Georges —, French Baroque painter whose works include Job Taunted by his Wife and The Dice Players |
| 34% | SIMS | 4 | Charles —, British painter whose works include 1928's I Am the Abyss and I Am Light |