| 100% | CIARDI | 6 | Poet John who wrote "Lives of X," an autobiography in verse |
| 47% | ENOS | 4 | Actor John ___ who played an Elvis impersonator in "Days of Our Lives" |
| 45% | OWL | 3 | X the ___ (puppet who lives in an oak tree in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood of Make-Believe) |
| 44% | DONNE | 5 | Poet John who wrote "No man is an island" |
| 41% | DANTE | 5 | Poet who wrote of Beatrice in "Divine Comedy" |
| 40% | LUIGI | 5 | Dramatist Pirandello who wrote "Six Characters in Search of an Author" |
| 40% | DALAI LAMA | 10 | Spiritual leader who wrote "The Joy of Living and Dying in Peace" |
| 39% | JOHNMILTON | 10 | Blind poet who often wrote in an ancient language |
| 38% | DONNE | 5 | John, poet who wrote that no man is an island |
| 38% | STOWE | 5 | Who wrote in an 1852 novel “Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good” |
| 37% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? |
| 37% | OHARA | 5 | John who wrote "Appointment in Samarra" |
| 37% | KEATS | 5 | British poet John who wrote "Ode to a Nightingale" |
| 36% | DANTE | 5 | Poet who wrote "In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost" |
| 36% | MUIR | 4 | John who wrote "My First Summer in the Sierra" |
| 36% | AUDEN | 5 | Poet who wrote, “Poetry makes nothing happen” in his poem about a poet, “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” |
| 35% | OSBORNE | 7 | Playwright John who wrote "Look Back in Anger" |
| 35% | LOCKE | 5 | Philosopher John who wrote "Two Treatises of Government" |
| 35% | ALLENGINSBERG | 13 | Poet who wrote “Everything is holy! everybody’s holy! everywhere is holy!” in a “Footnote” to one of his poems |
| 35% | LOCKE | 5 | Enlightenment philosopher John who wrote “Two Treatises of Government” |
| 35% | ELTON | 5 | John who completed an EGOT in 2024 |
| 34% | JOHN | 4 | ___ Legend, "All of Me" singer who won an Emmy for Outstanding Variety Special "Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert" |
| 34% | DONNE | 5 | John who wrote "No Man Is an Island" |
| 34% | AGASSI | 6 | Andre who wrote "Open: An Autobiography" |
| 34% | DANA | 4 | Author Spiotta who wrote “Wayward,” about a woman who flees her suburban family life in the wake of the 2016 Presidential election (July, 2021) |
| 34% | DARWISH | 7 | Poet Mahmoud who wrote the Palestinian Declaration of Independence |
| 34% | AGAR | 4 | John who co-starred in "Sands of Iwo Jima" |
| 34% | NIZER | 5 | Louis who wrote "My Life in Court" |
| 34% | RANDYTRAVIS | 11 | Country music superstar who wrote the 2019 autobiography "Forever and Ever, Amen: A Memoir of Music, Faith, and Braving the Storms of Life" (2 wds.) |
| 34% | DANTE | 5 | Poet who wrote of Beatrice |