| 100% | OSLER | 5 | Sir William who wrote "The Principles and Practice of Medicine" |
| 57% | OSLER | 5 | "The Principles and Practice of Medicine" author |
| 49% | BENTHAM | 7 | Jeremy —, English philosopher who wrote 1789 work Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation |
| 47% | INGE | 4 | William who wrote "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" |
| 45% | OSLER | 5 | Sir William ___, physician often called the father of modern medicine |
| 44% | BILLNYE | 7 | Who wrote "Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation" |
| 44% | STYRON | 6 | William who wrote "The Confessions of Nat Turner" |
| 44% | ANA | 3 | Novelist Huang who writes the "Twisted" and "Kings of Sin" romance series |
| 43% | ECO | 3 | Umberto who wrote "The Name of the Rose" and "Foucault's Pendulum" |
| 43% | ERICIDLE | 8 | Who wrote and sang "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" |
| 43% | CROZIER | 7 | Brian who wrote "The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire" |
| 43% | FAULKNER | 8 | Novelist William who wrote "The Sound and the Fury" and "As I Lay Dying" |
| 43% | SAGET | 5 | Bob who wrote and directed the mockumentary Farce of the Penguins |
| 43% | MALTHUS | 7 | Economist who wrote "An Essay on the Principle of Population," 1798 |
| 43% | GUNN | 4 | James who wrote and directed both "Guardians of the Galaxy" films |
| 42% | BRIANJACQUES | 12 | British novelist who wrote the "Redwall" and "Castaways of the Flying Dutchman" series (2 wds.) |
| 42% | BRONTE | 6 | Who wrote "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same" |
| 42% | ECO | 3 | Umberto who wrote "Foucault's Pendulum" and "The Name of the Rose" |
| 42% | DAVEGROHL | 9 | Foo Fighters founder who wrote the 2021 memoir "The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music" (2 wds.) |
| 42% | GOLDMAN | 7 | William who wrote The Princess Bride |
| 41% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo" |
| 41% | NYE | 3 | Popular engineer who wrote Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation |
| 41% | TINA | 4 | Brown who wrote “The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor—the Truth and the Turmoil” (2022) |
| 41% | SARABAREILLES | 13 | Singer/songwriter who wrote music and lyrics for the stage adaptation of "Waitress" (2 wds.) |
| 41% | HOWARD | 6 | John —, prison reformer who wrote 1777 book The State of Prisons in England and Wales |
| 41% | TESS | 4 | Author Gerritsen who writes about the crime-solving duo of Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles |
| 40% | TONI | 4 | Morrison who wrote, “I refuse the prison of ‘I’ and choose the open spaces of ‘we’ ” |
| 40% | NYE | 3 | TV scientist Bill who wrote "Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation" |
| 40% | NYE | 3 | Science guy Bill who wrote "Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation" |
| 40% | MANTEL | 6 | Hilary who wrote “The Mirror and the Light,” the final installment of her “Wolf Hall” trilogy (March, 2020) |