| 100% | BENJONSON | 9 | English playwright, author of Volpone |
| 79% | JOEORTON | 8 | English playwright, author of Loot |
| 78% | BENJONSON | 9 | English playwright, author of Bartholomew Fair |
| 54% | PINTER | 6 | Harold, English playwright of The Caretaker |
| 54% | PINTER | 6 | Harold, English playwright of The Homecoming |
| 52% | OSBORNE | 7 | John, English playwright of Look Back in Anger |
| 51% | KYD | 3 | English author of "The Spanish Tragedy" Thomas ____ |
| 51% | FORSTER | 7 | English author of A Passage to India |
| 51% | BENJONSON | 9 | Author of stage plays The Alchemist and Volpone who died in 1637 |
| 50% | JULIANA | 7 | English mystic and author, __ of Norwich |
| 49% | HUGHLAURIE | 10 | English actor; author of 1996 novel The Gun Seller |
| 49% | UDALL | 5 | Nicholas —, 16th-century English playwright who authored the comedy Ralph Roister Doister |
| 49% | DEQUINCEY | 9 | Thomas —, author of 1821 autobiographical work Confessions of an English Opium Eater |
| 48% | NEILGAIMAN | 10 | English author of "Stardust," "American Gods" and "The Graveyard Book" |
| 48% | JONSON | 6 | Ben —, author of stage plays The Alchemist and Volpone who died in 1637 |
| 43% | READE | 5 | English playwright |
| 43% | SHAKESPEARE | 11 | English playwright |
| 43% | CONGREVE | 8 | English playwright |
| 43% | JULIANBARNES | 12 | English author who won the Man Booker Prize for "The Sense of an Ending": 2 wds. |
| 42% | MALTHUS | 7 | Thomas —, English economist who authored 1798's An Essay on the Principle of Population |
| 42% | ALAN | 4 | English playwright Ayckbourn |
| 42% | ORTON | 5 | English playwright Joe |
| 42% | OSBORNE | 7 | English playwright John |
| 42% | KYD | 3 | English playwright Thomas ___ |
| 42% | NOEL | 4 | English playwright Coward |
| 42% | BLEASDALE | 9 | Alan —, playwright; author of Channel 4 series GBH and Jake's Progress |
| 42% | ROSTAND | 7 | Edmond —, French playwright; author of 1897 verse drama Cyrano de Bergerac |
| 42% | OVID | 4 | Author of "Metamorphoses" |
| 42% | URIS | 4 | Author of ''Topaz'' |
| 42% | VOLTAIRE | 8 | Author of "Candide" |