| 100% | MAETERLINCK | 11 | Maurice —, Belgian poet and dramatist awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 53% | SACHS | 5 | Nelly —, poet and dramatist who shared the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 51% | DYLAN | 5 | Bob —, singer and actor awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 50% | YEATS | 5 | Poet awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923 |
| 46% | KAZUO | 5 | Novelist Ishiguro awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 45% | NERUDA | 6 | Poet Pablo who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 44% | ONEILL | 6 | Eugene —, playwright awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 43% | BOBDYLAN | 8 | Singer/songwriter who was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature (2 wds.) |
| 42% | BOB | 3 | Singer-songwriter Dylan who was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 42% | DYLAN | 5 | Bob —, singer-actor awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 42% | KAZUOISHIGURO | 13 | British novelist who wrote 19-Across and 31-Across and was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature (2 wds.) |
| 41% | LOUISEGLUCK | 11 | American poet who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature (2 wds.) |
| 41% | SARTRE | 6 | Jean-Paul —, French philosopher awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 41% | CURIE | 5 | Marie —, winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| 38% | ELIOT | 5 | T.S. ___ who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 37% | DYLAN | 5 | Winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 37% | ERIK | 4 | Swedish poet ___ Axel Karlfeldt (posthumous recipient of the 1931 Nobel Prize in Literature) |
| 37% | PAZ | 3 | Octavio ___, Mexican poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990 |
| 37% | TONIMORRISON | 12 | "Beloved" novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in the year 1993: 2 wds. |
| 36% | FOSSE | 5 | Jon who won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable” (October, 2023) |
| 36% | DYLAN | 5 | Bob who won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 36% | LESSING | 7 | Doris who won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 36% | DYLAN | 5 | Musician who won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 36% | OLGA | 4 | Tokarczuk who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 36% | MANN | 4 | Thomas who won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 36% | TOKARCZUK | 9 | Olga who was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in 2019 |
| 35% | ANNIEERNAUX | 11 | Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature who described her prose in the novel “Les Armoires Vides” as “brutally direct, working-class and sometimes obscene” (October, 2022) |
| 35% | PULITZERS | 9 | Prizes awarded in journalism, literature and music |