| 100% | BOHR | 4 | Niels who won the Nobel Prize for his model of the atom |
| 54% | ARTHURASHKIN | 12 | American scientist who won one half of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on optical tweezers: 2 wds. |
| 52% | DYLAN | 5 | Singer Bob who won the Nobel prize for Literature |
| 51% | KAZUOISHIGURO | 13 | Author who won the Booker Prize for "The Remains of the Day": 2 wds. |
| 50% | ONEILL | 6 | Eugene ___, 20th-century playwright who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936 |
| 50% | DORISLESSING | 12 | British author of "The Golden Notebook" who won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature: 2 wds. |
| 49% | BOHR | 4 | Niels ___, Danish scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 |
| 49% | BOHR | 4 | Surname of the father and son who won Nobel Prizes for Physics in 1922 and 1975 |
| 49% | SHALES | 6 | Tom who won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his WaPo work |
| 48% | FOSSE | 5 | Jon who won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable” (October, 2023) |
| 48% | JAMESPALLISON | 13 | American immunologist who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Tasuku Honjo for discovery of a cancer therapy: 3 wds. |
| 46% | ALBEE | 5 | Edward ___, American playwright who won three Pulitzer Prizes for three of his plays |
| 46% | DYLAN | 5 | Bob who won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature |
| 46% | TAGORE | 6 | Indian poet who won the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature |
| 46% | MUNRO | 5 | Canadian Alice who won the 2013 Nobel Prize for literature |
| 46% | JONFOSSE | 8 | Norwegian playwright who won the 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature |
| 45% | MANN | 4 | German writer Thomas who won the 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature |
| 45% | ALAN | 4 | Hollinghurst who won the 2004 Booker Prize for “The Line of Beauty” |
| 44% | IAN | 3 | English author ___ McEwan who won the Man Booker Prize for his novel "Amsterdam" |
| 44% | SKEPTA | 6 | British hip-hop star who won the 2016 Mercury Prize for his album Konnichiwa |
| 44% | YANN | 4 | ___ Martel, author who won the Man Booker Prize in 2002 for "Life of Pi" |
| 44% | MENOTTI | 7 | Italian-American composer who won a Pulitzer Prize for "The Saint of Bleecker Street" |
| 44% | BARACK | 6 | "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance" author who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 |
| 43% | CURIE | 5 | Marie who won the Nobel Prize twice |
| 43% | TONIMORRISON | 12 | 18-Across and 32-Across novelist who won the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature (2 wds.) |
| 43% | ELLEN | 5 | Johnson Sirleaf who won a Nobel Peace Prize during her time as the President of Liberia |
| 43% | JULIANBARNES | 12 | English author who won the Man Booker Prize for "The Sense of an Ending": 2 wds. |
| 43% | THOMAS | 6 | __ Mann, German novelist who won the Nobel Prize |
| 43% | BERNARD | 7 | George __ Shaw, Irish who won the Nobel Prize |
| 43% | KAZUOISHIGURO | 13 | British author of "Never Let Me Go" who won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature : 2 wds. |