| 100% | BENJONSON | 9 | English playwright, author of Bartholomew Fair |
| 65% | BENJONSON | 9 | English playwright, author of Volpone |
| 65% | JOEORTON | 8 | English playwright, author of Loot |
| 45% | THACKERAY | 9 | Author of the novel "Vanity Fair": William M. __ |
| 45% | PINTER | 6 | Harold, English playwright of The Caretaker |
| 45% | PINTER | 6 | Harold, English playwright of The Homecoming |
| 45% | SCARBOROUGH | 11 | Site of an old english fair |
| 44% | OSBORNE | 7 | John, English playwright of Look Back in Anger |
| 43% | KYD | 3 | English author of "The Spanish Tragedy" Thomas ____ |
| 43% | FORSTER | 7 | English author of A Passage to India |
| 42% | JULIANA | 7 | English mystic and author, __ of Norwich |
| 41% | HUGHLAURIE | 10 | English actor; author of 1996 novel The Gun Seller |
| 40% | UDALL | 5 | Nicholas —, 16th-century English playwright who authored the comedy Ralph Roister Doister |
| 40% | DEQUINCEY | 9 | Thomas —, author of 1821 autobiographical work Confessions of an English Opium Eater |
| 40% | NEILGAIMAN | 10 | English author of "Stardust," "American Gods" and "The Graveyard Book" |
| 39% | TINABROWN | 9 | English editor of Vanity Fair and Tatler |
| 38% | LILYALLEN | 9 | English pop singer of Smile, The Fear and Not Fair |
| 38% | BATES | 5 | H E —, author of novels Love for Lydia and Fair Stood the Wind for France |
| 36% | READE | 5 | English playwright |
| 36% | SHAKESPEARE | 11 | English playwright |
| 36% | CONGREVE | 8 | English playwright |
| 35% | JULIANBARNES | 12 | English author who won the Man Booker Prize for "The Sense of an Ending": 2 wds. |
| 35% | MALTHUS | 7 | Thomas —, English economist who authored 1798's An Essay on the Principle of Population |
| 35% | ALAN | 4 | English playwright Ayckbourn |
| 35% | ORTON | 5 | English playwright Joe |
| 35% | OSBORNE | 7 | English playwright John |
| 35% | KYD | 3 | English playwright Thomas ___ |
| 35% | NOEL | 4 | English playwright Coward |
| 35% | BLEASDALE | 9 | Alan —, playwright; author of Channel 4 series GBH and Jake's Progress |
| 35% | OVID | 4 | Author of "Metamorphoses" |