| 100% | BRECHT | 6 | Bertolt —, dramatist whose stage plays include Mr Puntila and his Man Matti |
| 44% | LIVINGS | 7 | Henry —, British dramatist whose stage plays include Eh? and Nil Carborundum |
| 40% | EMLYN | 5 | & 22A Welsh actor-dramatist whose stage plays include Night Must Fall and The Corn Is Green |
| 34% | FLETCHER | 8 | John —, Jacobean dramatist whose plays include The Island Princess and The Faithful Shepherdess |
| 34% | PETER | 5 | & 6D British dramatist whose stage works include Zigger Zagger and The Apprentices |
| 32% | IONESCO | 7 | Eugene —, Romanian dramatist whose stage works include Exit the King and Rhinoceros |
| 30% | FUGARD | 6 | Athol —, South African dramatist whose stage works include The Road to Mecca and The Island |
| 28% | SACKS | 5 | Oliver —, late British neurologist whose books include 1985's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales |
| 28% | THOMASDEKKER | 12 | English poet and dramatist whose works include the plays Match Me in London and The Shoemaker's Holiday |
| 28% | SOPHOCLES | 9 | Greek dramatist whose works include Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus |
| 27% | ARISTOPHANES | 12 | Greek comic dramatist whose works include The Birds and The Frogs |
| 27% | ETHEREGE | 8 | George —, 17th-century English dramatist whose works include The Man of Mode |
| 27% | CORNEILLE | 9 | Pierre —, 17th-century French dramatist whose works include Le Cid and Cinna |
| 27% | HAPPYDAYS | 9 | 1961 stage play by Samuel Beckett whose characters are Winnie and Willie |
| 27% | CHESS | 5 | Game whose playing pieces include queens and pawns |
| 27% | ORTON | 5 | Joe —, author of stage plays What the Butler Saw and Entertaining Mr Sloane |
| 27% | NOELCOWARD | 10 | Playwright whose stage works include Present Laughter and Design for Living |
| 26% | ORTON | 5 | Joe —, author of the stage plays What the Butler Saw and Entertaining Mr Sloane |
| 26% | TWELFTH | 7 | & 7A William Shakespeare play whose characters include Valentine and Curio |
| 26% | TWELFTH | 7 | & 4D William Shakespeare play whose characters include Valentine and Curio |
| 26% | GOLDSMITH | 9 | Oliver —, author of stage plays She Stoops to Conquer and The Good-Natur'd Man |
| 25% | CRUMB | 5 | Robert —, US cartoonist whose creations include Fritz the Cat and Mr Natural |
| 25% | CRUMB | 5 | Robert —, US cartoonist whose creations include Fritz the Cat and Mr. Natural |
| 25% | BAKST | 5 | Leon —, Russian painter and stage designer whose works include 1913 watercolour The Butterfly |