| 100% | LIVINGS | 7 | Henry —, British dramatist whose stage plays include Eh? and Nil Carborundum |
| 52% | BRECHT | 6 | Bertolt —, dramatist whose stage plays include Mr Puntila and his Man Matti |
| 49% | PETER | 5 | & 6D British dramatist whose stage works include Zigger Zagger and The Apprentices |
| 45% | EMLYN | 5 | & 22A Welsh actor-dramatist whose stage plays include Night Must Fall and The Corn Is Green |
| 38% | FLETCHER | 8 | John —, Jacobean dramatist whose plays include The Island Princess and The Faithful Shepherdess |
| 36% | IONESCO | 7 | Eugene —, Romanian dramatist whose stage works include Exit the King and Rhinoceros |
| 34% | FUGARD | 6 | Athol —, South African dramatist whose stage works include The Road to Mecca and The Island |
| 32% | THOMASDEKKER | 12 | English poet and dramatist whose works include the plays Match Me in London and The Shoemaker's Holiday |
| 31% | SOPHOCLES | 9 | Greek dramatist whose works include Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus |
| 31% | ARISTOPHANES | 12 | Greek comic dramatist whose works include The Birds and The Frogs |
| 30% | CORNEILLE | 9 | Pierre —, 17th-century French dramatist whose works include Le Cid and Cinna |
| 30% | HAPPYDAYS | 9 | 1961 stage play by Samuel Beckett whose characters are Winnie and Willie |
| 30% | FUSELI | 6 | Henry —, British painter born in Switzerland whose works include 1781's The Nightmare |
| 30% | NOELCOWARD | 10 | Playwright whose stage works include Present Laughter and Design for Living |
| 29% | ESPYS | 5 | Sports honors whose categories include Best Upset and Best Play |
| 29% | TUKE | 4 | Henry Scott —, English painter whose works include 1902's Ruby, Gold and Malachite |
| 29% | TUKE | 4 | Henry Scott -, English painter whose works include 1902's Ruby, Gold and Malachite |
| 29% | EDGAR | 5 | David —, playwright whose stage works include Maydays and Pentecost |
| 28% | MUCHADOABOUT | 12 | & 8A William Shakespeare play whose characters include Don John and Don Pedro |
| 28% | BAKST | 5 | Leon —, Russian painter and stage designer whose works include 1913 watercolour The Butterfly |
| 28% | HAWKING | 7 | Stephen —, British theoretical physicist whose books include The Nature of Space and Time |
| 28% | ALLENJONES | 10 | British exponent of pop art whose works include screenprints Cut-a-Way and One Way Traffic |
| 28% | KEMBLE | 6 | Fanny —, 19th-century English stage actress and playwright whose works include Francis the First |
| 28% | TURK | 4 | Gavin —, British sculptor and conceptual artist whose installations include 2004's The Golden Thread |