| 100% | DYLAN | 5 | Bob —, singer and actor awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 78% | DYLAN | 5 | Bob —, singer-actor awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 66% | BOBDYLAN | 8 | Singer/songwriter who was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature (2 wds.) |
| 64% | BOB | 3 | Singer-songwriter Dylan who was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 59% | DYLAN | 5 | Bob —, singer-actor; 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature winner |
| 59% | DYLAN | 5 | Bob who won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 55% | MAETERLINCK | 11 | Maurice —, Belgian poet and dramatist awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 54% | DYLAN | 5 | Winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 54% | DYLAN | 5 | Musician who won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 53% | DYLAN | 5 | Singer Bob who won the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 50% | KAZUO | 5 | Novelist Ishiguro awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 48% | BOBDYLAN | 8 | "Blowin' in the Wind" singer-songwriter who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in the year 2016: 2 wds. |
| 48% | DYLAN | 5 | Bob who won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature |
| 48% | ONEILL | 6 | Eugene —, playwright awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 47% | DYLAN | 5 | 2016 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 46% | YEATS | 5 | Poet awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923 |
| 45% | SARTRE | 6 | Jean-Paul —, French philosopher awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 45% | KAZUOISHIGURO | 13 | British novelist who wrote 19-Across and 31-Across and was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature (2 wds.) |
| 42% | DYLAN | 5 | Singer Bob who won the Nobel prize for Literature |
| 41% | SACHS | 5 | Nelly —, poet and dramatist who shared the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 41% | ELIOT | 5 | T.S. ___ who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 40% | TONIMORRISON | 12 | "Beloved" novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in the year 1993: 2 wds. |
| 40% | FOSSE | 5 | Jon who won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable” (October, 2023) |
| 40% | STING | 5 | Singer and actor who played Baron Frankenstein in 1985 film fantasy The Bride |
| 40% | LESSING | 7 | Doris who won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 40% | OLGA | 4 | Tokarczuk who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 40% | MANN | 4 | Thomas who won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 39% | TOKARCZUK | 9 | Olga who was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in 2019 |
| 39% | KEMP | 4 | Gary —, singer and actor who portrayed Ronald Kray in 1990 biopic The Krays |