Writers
- Elinor Brent-Dyer (1894–1969), author of the Chalet School stories
- Robert Colls Professor of English history at the University of Leicester
- Catherine Cookson (1906–1998), novelist
- J. Thomas Looney (1870–1944), Comtean and Shakespeare authorship theorist.
- Barry MacSweeney (1948–2000), poet
- Avro Manhattan (1914–1990), writer
- James Mitchell (1926–2002) TV script writer - Callan, The Avengers, etc.
- Alan Myers (born 1933) Literary Translator.
- Dorothy Samuelson-Sandvid, also known as 'Dorfy,' born South Shields, a Geordie dialect writer and author of 'A Basinful O' Geordie'
- Francis Scarfe (1911–1986), poet and critic
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