| 100% | DAVENANT | 8 | William —, poet and playwright whose stage works include The Platonick Lovers |
| 52% | NOELCOWARD | 10 | Playwright whose stage works include Present Laughter and Design for Living |
| 52% | EDGAR | 5 | David —, playwright whose stage works include Maydays and Pentecost |
| 51% | KEEFFE | 6 | Barrie —, playwright whose stage works include Bastard Angel and Not Fade Away |
| 49% | FUGARD | 6 | Athol —, South African dramatist whose stage works include The Road to Mecca and The Island |
| 49% | IONESCO | 7 | Eugene —, Romanian dramatist whose stage works include Exit the King and Rhinoceros |
| 49% | PETER | 5 | & 6D British dramatist whose stage works include Zigger Zagger and The Apprentices |
| 45% | HORACE | 6 | Roman poet and satirist whose works include the Ars Poetica |
| 44% | KEMBLE | 6 | Fanny —, 19th-century English stage actress and playwright whose works include Francis the First |
| 44% | DAVID | 5 | & 5D Playwright whose works for children include The Gingerbread Man and The Ideal Gnome Expedition |
| 41% | THOMASDEKKER | 12 | English poet and dramatist whose works include the plays Match Me in London and The Shoemaker's Holiday |
| 41% | DONNE | 5 | John —, English poet whose works include The Storm and The Calm |
| 40% | POE | 3 | Poet whose works include "Annabel Lee" and "The Bells" |
| 40% | RUDKIN | 6 | David —, playwright whose works include The Triumph of Death and The Sons of Light |
| 40% | ETTY | 4 | William —, English painter whose works include The Golden Age and The Judgement of Paris |
| 40% | STRINDBERG | 10 | August —, Swedish playwright whose works include The Ghost Sonata and Miss Julie |
| 40% | SHELLEY | 7 | Percy Bysshe —, poet whose works include The Masque of Anarchy and Queen Mab |
| 39% | BELASCO | 7 | David —, US impresario and playwright whose works include Adrea, Mima and Fanny |
| 39% | JOHNANTROBUS | 12 | Playwright whose works include Captain Oates' Left Sock and Why Bournemouth? |
| 37% | ANTROBUS | 8 | John —, playwright whose works include Captain Oates' Left Sock and Why Bournemouth? |
| 37% | MATTHEWPRIOR | 12 | English poet and diplomat whose works include 1700's Carmen Saeculare |
| 37% | TONYHARRISON | 12 | English poet whose volumes include V and The Loiners |
| 36% | PAULVALERY | 10 | French poet and critic whose works include 1917's La Jeune Parque |
| 36% | MARVELL | 7 | Andrew —, 17th-century poet and satirist whose works include The Mower's Song and Last Instructions to a Painter |
| 36% | MARVELL | 7 | Andrew —, 17th-century poet and satirist whose works include The Mower’s Song and Last Instructions to a Painter |
| 36% | TONY | 4 | & 13D English poet whose volumes include V and The Loiners |
| 36% | VIRGIL | 6 | Roman epic poet whose works include the Aeneid |
| 36% | HEINE | 5 | Heinrich —, German poet and prose writer whose works include Atta Troll and Deutschland: Ein Wintermarchen |
| 36% | HEINE | 5 | Heinrich —, German poet and prose writer whose works include Deutschland: Ein Wintermarchen and Atta Troll |