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- Charles Babbage (1791–1871), polymath
- Gervase Babington (1549/50–1610), theologian and bishop
- Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941), writer and army officer, Scouting for Boys
- Edmund Backhouse (1873–1944), orientalist and autobiographer
- Anne Bacon (c. 1528–1610), translator and letter-writer
- Francis Bacon (1561–1626), essayist, New Atlantis
- Phanuel Bacon (1699–1783), playwright and poet
- John F. Baddeley (1854–1940), travel writer and journalist
- Robert Bage (1730–1801), novelist and radical, Hermsprong: or, Man As He Is Not
- Walter Bagehot (1826–1877), economist and essayist
- Enid Bagnold (1889–1981), novelist and playwright, National Velvet
- Richard Bagot (1860–1921), novelist and essayist
- David Bailey (born c. 1970s), story writer and editor
- H. C. Bailey (1878–1961), novelist
- Hilary Bailey (born 1936), biographer and editor
- Nathan Bailey (died 1742), philologist, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary
- Paul Bailey (born 1937), novelist and dramatist
- Philip James Bailey (1816–1902), poet
- Samuel Bailey (1791–1870), philosopher and economist
- Beryl Bainbridge (born 1932), novelist
- Denys Val Baker (1917–1984), novelist and story writer
- Henry Baker (1698–1774), naturalist and poet
- Samuel Baker (1821–1893), writer and explorer
- Rajeev Balasubramanyam (born 1974), novelist
- Nigel Balchin (1908–1970), novelist and screenwriter
- John Bale (1495–1563), playwright and bishop
- J. G. Ballard (1930–2009), novelist
- Samuel Bamford (1788–1872), writer and Lancashire dialect poet
- John Codrington Bampfylde (1764–1796/7), poet
- Richard Bancroft (1544–1610), controversialist, AV translator and archbishop
- Isabella Banks (1821–1897), novelist and poet
- Lynne Reid Banks (born 1929), novelist
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825), poet, essayist and children's writer
- W. N. P. Barbellion (real name Bruce Frederick Cummings, 1889–1919), diarist
- Richard Barber (born 1941), historian
- Alexander Barclay (c. 1476–1552), poet and translator
- Florence L. Barclay (1862–1921), novelist
- James Barclay (born 1965), novelist
- John Baret (died c. 1580), lexicographer
- Richard Harris Barham (wrote as Thomas Ingoldsby, 1788–1845), novelist and poet, The Ingoldsby Legends
- Maurice Baring (1874–1945), playwright, novelist and poet
- Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924), novelist, cleric and hymn writer, Onward, Christian Soldiers
- A. L. Barker (1918–2002), novelist
- Cicely Mary Barker (1895–1973), children's and religious writer and illustrator
- Elspeth Barker (born 1940), novelist
- George Granville Barker (1913–1991), poet and novelist
- Jane Barker (1652–1732), poet and novelist
- Mary Anne Barker (1831–1911), writer, journalist and poet
- Nicola Barker (born 1966), novelist
- Pat Barker (born 1943), novelist, the Regeneration Trilogy
- Raffaella Barker (born 1964), novelist and journalist
- George Barlow (wrote as James Hinton, 1837–1913/14), poet
- William Barlow (died 1613), scholar, AV translator and bishop
- Mordaunt Roger Barnard (1828–1906), translator and cleric
- Kitty Barne (1883–1961), children's writer, Visitors from London
- Barnabe Barnes (c. 1568 or 1569–1609), poet and playwright
- Julian Barnes (born 1946), novelist, Flaubert's Parrot
- William Barnes (1801–1886), Dorset dialect poet and philologist
- Correlli Barnett (born 1927), military and economic historian
- Richard Barnfield (1574–1620), poet
- Alexander Baron (1917–1999), novelist and screenwriter
- Geoffrey Barraclough (1908–1984), historian
- John Barret (1631–1713), Presbyterian minister and writer on religion
- Leslie Barringer (1895–1968), editor and novelist
- Isaac Barrow (1630–1677), scholar and cleric
- John Barrow (fl. 1735–1774), lexicographer, mathematician and naval historian
- William Barrow (1754–1836), religious writer and cleric
- Stan Barstow (born 1928), novelist and radio dramatist, A Kind of Loving
- William Bartholomew (1793–1867), librettist, translator and composer
- Mike Bartlett (born 1980), playwright and director
- Bernard Barton (1784–1849), poet and Quaker
- Henry Howarth Bashford (1880–1961), novelist and physician, Augustus Carp, Esq.
- William Basse (c. 1583–1653/4), poet
- Jonathan Bate (born 1958), biographer and editor
- H. E. Bates (1905–1974), novelist, The Darling Buds of May
- Henry Walter Bates (1825–1892), naturalist and explorer
- Ralph Bates (1899–2000), novelist
- Elizabeth Bath (1772–1856), poet
- Richard Baxter (1615–1691), poet, hymn writer and theologian
- Stephen Baxter (born 1957), novelist
- F. W. N. Bayley (1808–1853), miscellanist
- John Bayley (born 1925), critic and novelist
- Peter Bayley (c. 1778–1883), poet and playwright
- Ada Ellen Bayly (pen name Edna Lyall, 1857–1903), novelist
- Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797–1830), poet and playwright
- John Beadle (died 1667), diarist and cleric
- Richard Bean (born 1956), playwright
- Francis Beaumont, (1584–1616), playwright
- John Beaumont (1583–1627), poet
- Joseph Beaumont (1616–1699), poet and cleric
- Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898), writer and illustrator
- Laura Beatty (born c. 1970s), biographer and novelist
- Samuel Beazley (1786–1851), novelist, playwright and architect
- William Beckford (1760–1844), novelist and patron, Vathek
- Lillian Beckwith (born Lillian Comber, 1916–2004), novelist and memoirist
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849), poet
- William Bedwell (1561–1632), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- Henry Charles Beeching (1859–1919), poet and anthologist
- Patricia Beer (1919–1999), poet and critic
- Constance Beerbohm (1811–1892), writer
- Julius Beerbohm (1854–1906), travel writer and explorer
- Max Beerbohm (1872–1956), novelist, writer and caricaturist, Zuleika Dobson
- Alfred Beesley (1800–1847), poet and topographer
- Mrs Beeton (born Isabella Mary Mayson, 1836–1865), writer on cookery and housekeeping Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management
- Antony Beevor (born 1946), historian and novelist, Stalingrad
- Aphra Behn (1640–1689), novelist and playwright
- Adrian Bell (1901–1980), countryside writer and journalist
- Clive Bell (1881–1964), art critic
- Florence Bell (1851–1930), playwright and editor
- Gertrude Bell (1868–1926), writer and traveller
- Josephine Bell (pen name also David Wintringham, 1897–1987), novelist
- Julian Bell (1908–1937), poet
- Mary Hayley Bell (1911–2005), novelist, playwright and actress
- Thomas Bell (1792–1880), zoologist, surgeon and writer
- Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953), writer and poet
- Thomas Belt (1832–1878), naturalist and geologist
- Elizabeth Benger (1775–1827), poet, novelist and biographer
- Edward Benlowes (1603–1676), poet
- Alan Bennett (born 1934), playwright and broadcaster, The Madness of George III
- Anna Maria Bennett (c. 1760–1808), novelist
- Arnold Bennett (1867–1931), novelist, The Clayhanger Family
- Edwin Keppel Bennett (pen name Francis Bennett, 1887–1958), writer, poet and scholar
- A. C. Benson (1862–1925), poet and diarist, "Land of Hope and Glory"
- E. F. Benson (1867–1940), novelist and story writer, the Mapp and Lucia series.
- Peter Benson (born 1956), novelist
- Robert Hugh Benson (1871–1914), novelist, religious writer and cleric
- Stella Benson (1892–1933), novelist, poet and travel writer
- George Bentham (1800–1884), botanist
- Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), philosopher
- Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956), novelist, humorist and comic poet, the clerihew
- Elizabeth Bentley (1767–1839), poet
- Nicolas Bentley (1907–1978), writer and illustrator
- Phyllis Bentley (1894–1977), novelist and biographer
- Richard Bentley (1662–1742), theologian and poet
- Edward Berdoe (1836–1916), critic, novelist and physician
- Elisabeth Beresford (born 1928), children's writer, the Wombles
- J. D. Beresford (1873–1947), novelist, The Hampdenshire Wonder
- James Beresford (1764–1840), satirist, translator and cleric
- Leila Berg (1917–2012), children's writer
- John Berger (born 1926), novelist, G.
- Reginald Berkeley (1890–1935), playwright, screenwriter and politician
- John Berkenhout (1726–1791), naturalist
- Steven Berkoff (born 1937), playwright and actor
- William Bayle Bernard (1807–1875), playwright, critic and novelist
- John Bourchier Berners (1467–1533), translator and statesman
- Juliana Berners or Bernes, (born c. 1388), writer on heraldry, hawking and hunting, The Boke of Saint Albans
- Elizabeth Berridge (1919–2009), English novelist
- Mary Berry (1763–1852), writer, editor and correspondent
- Mary Berry (born 1935), cookery writer
- Charles Bertram (1723–1765), literary forger
- Annie Besant (1847–1933), writer and campaigner
- Walter Besant (1836–1901), novelist and historian
- Charles Best (1570–1627), poet
- Alfred Bestall (1892–1986), children's writer and illustrator, Rupert Bear
- Henry Digby Beste (1768–1836), religious writer
- Matilda Betham-Edwards (1836–1919), novelist, poet and travel writer
- John Betjeman (1906–1984), Poet Laureate
- Thomas Betterton (1635–1710), playwright and actor
- Edwyn Bevan (1870–1943), philosopher and historian
- Elizabeth Bibesco (1897–1945), novelist and poet
- Tessa Biddington (born 1954), poet
- John Stanyan Bigg (1828–1865), poet
- Mark Billingham (born 1961), novelist
- Thomas Bilson(1547–1616), theologian, AV translator and bishop
- Andrew Bing (1574–1652), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- Laurence Binyon (1869–1943), poet and art historian
- T. J. Binyon (1936–2004), novelist, translator and biographer
- Thomas Birch (1705–1766), historian
- Caroline Bird (born 1986), poet and playwright
- Isabella Bird (1831–1904), travel writer and naturalist
- Dea Birkett (born 1958), writer
- John Birtwhistle (born 1947), poet and librettist
- Samuel Bishop (1731–1795), poet and essayist
- Robert Black (1829–1915), fiction writer, translator and journalist
- John Blackburn (born 1923), novelist
- Thomas Blackburn (1916–1977), poet
- Malorie Blackman (born 1962), children's writer and screenwriter, the Noughts and Crosses series
- R. D. Blackmore (1825–1900), novelist, Lorna Doone
- Richard Blackmore (1654–1729), poet and religious writer
- William Blackstone (1723–1780), legal writer, jurist and judge, Commentaries on the Laws of England
- Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951), novelist and short story writer
- Caroline Blackwood (1931–1996), novelist and critic
- Helen Blackwood, Lady Dufferin (1807–1867), poet and songwriter
- Max Blagg (born c. 1949), poet, writer and performer
- Quentin Blake (born 1932), children's writer and illustrator
- William Blake (1757–1827), poet and artist, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
- Helen Blakeman (born 1971), playwright and screenwriter
- Susanna Blamire (1747–1794), poet
- Edward Blanchard (1820–1899), playwright and songwriter
- Samuel Laman Blanchard (1804–1845), writer, journalist and poet
- Robert Blatchford (pen name Nunquam, 1851–1943), journalist, writer and campaigner
- Nicholas Blincoe (born 1965), novelist and screenwriter
- Mathilde Blind (1841–1896), poet and biographer
- Edward Blishen (1920–1996), writer and broadcaster
- Walter Blith (1605–1654), writer on husbandry
- Robert Bloomfield (1766–1823), poet
- Charles Blount (1654–1693), controversialist
- Evelyn, Princess Blücher (1876–1960), diarist and memoirist
- Nicholas Blundell (1669–1737), diarist
- Edmund Blunden (1896–1974), poet, author and critic
- Anthony Blunt (1907–1983), art historian and spy
- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840–1922), poet and author
- Ronald Blythe (born 1922), writer and editor,
- Enid Blyton (1897–1968), children's writer, Noddy
- James Boaden (1762–1839), biographer, playwright and journalist
- Frederick S. Boas (1862–1957), literary historian
- John Ernest Bode (1816–1874), poet, hymn writer and cleric
- John Bodenham (1569–1610), anthologist
- Barbara Bodichon (1827–1891), educationalist and feminist
- John Bois (1560–1643), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- Osbern Bokenam (c. 1393 – c. 1463), literary historian and cleric
- Robert Bolt (1924–1995), dramatist and screenwriter, A Man For All Seasons
- Michael Bond (born 1926), children's writer, Paddington Bear series
- Elizabeth Bonhôte (1744–1818), novelist, Bungay Castle
- Christopher Booker (born 1937), writer and journalist
- George Boole (1815–1864), mathematician and logician, The Laws of Thought
- Mary Everest Boole (1832–1916), educational writer on mathematics
- Barton Booth (1681–1733), actor and poet
- Charles Booth (1840–1916), social researcher, Life and Labour of the People in London
- Martin Booth (1944–2004), novelist, poet and editor
- Stephen Booth (born 1952), novelist
- Brooke Boothby (1744–1824), scholar and poet
- Frances Boothby (fl. 1669–70), playwright
- Basil Boothroyd (1910–1988), writer and humorist
- George Borrow (1803–1881), novelist and travel writer, Romany Rye
- Lucy M. Boston (1892–1990), children's writer, Green Knowe series
- Clifford Edmund Bosworth (born 1928), historian and Arabist
- Joseph Bosworth (1789–1876), lexicographer and scholar of Anglo-Saxon
- Phyllis Bottome (1884–1963), novelist and psychoanalyst
- Gordon Bottomley (1874–1948), poet and dramatist
- Ronald Bottrall (1906–1989), poet and academic
- Marjorie Boulton (born 1924), writer and Esperantist
- Francis William Bourdillon (1852–1921), poet
- Thomas Edward Bowdich (1791–1824), traveller and writer
- Henrietta Maria Bowdler ("Harriet", 1750–1830), religious writer, editor and expurgator
- Jane Bowdler (1743–1784), poet and essayist
- John Bowdler (1746–1823), religious writer and pamphleteer
- John Bowdler (1783–1815), writer and poet
- Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825), writer and expurgator
- Thomas Bowdler 1782–1856), religious writer and cleric
- Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973), novelist and story writer
- John Griffith Bowen (born 1924), novelist and screenwriter, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates TV series, with David Cook
- Marjorie Bowen (real name Gabrielle Margaret Vere Long, 1885–1952), novelist and writer
- Emily Bowes (1806–1857), religious poet and artist
- Mary Bowes (1749–1800), playwright and botanist
- Tim Bowler (born c. 1967), children's writer
- William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850), poet and critic
- Maurice Bowra (1898–1971), scholar and wit
- Frank Cottrell Boyce (born 1959), children's writer and screenwriter, Millions
- William Binnington Boyce (1804–1889), philologist, theologian and Methodist cleric
- Abel Boyer (c. 1667–1729), journalist, miscellanist and translator
- Charles Boyle (1674–1731), writer and playwright
- Charles Boyle (born 1951), poet
- John Boyle (1707–1762), writer and translator
- Roger Boyle (1621–1679), playwright and statesman
- Ernest Franklin Bozman (1895–1968), writer and editor
- Michael Bracewell (born 1958), novelist and writer on popular culture
- Alison Brackenbury (born 1953), poet
- Jason Bradbury (living), children's writer and TV presenter, Dot.Robot series.
- Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000), novelist
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837–1915), novelist, Lady Audley's Secret
- Henry J. Bradfield (1805–1852), poet, writer and colonial officer
- Barbara Taylor Bradford (born 1933), novelist, A Woman of Substance
- Ernle Bradford (1922–1986), historian and writer
- Charles Bradlaugh (1833–1891), writer and freethinker
- A. C. Bradley (1851–1935), literary critic
- Charles Bradley (1789–1871), preacher and religious writer
- Edward Bradley (wrote as Cuthbert M. Bede, B. A., 1827–1889), novelist and cleric
- F. H. Bradley (1846–1924), philosopher
- Henry Bradley (1845–1923), philologist and lexicographer
- Henry Bradshaw (c. 1450–1513), poet and monk
- Hilary Bradt (born 1941), travel writer and publisher
- John Brady (died 1814), miscellanist
- Melvyn Bragg (born 1939), novelist, biographer and broadcaster
- John Braine (1922–1986), novelist, Room at the Top
- Richard Braithwaite or Brathwait, (1588–1673), poet
- Ernest Bramah (born Ernest Bramah Smith, 1868–1942), novelist and humorist
- James Bramston (1694–1744), poet and satirist
- Barbarina Brand Lady Dacre, (1768–1854), poet, playwright and translator
- Christianna Brand (real name Mary Christianna Milne, 1907–1988), novelist and children's writer
- Hannah Brand (1754–1821), playwright, poet and actress
- Jo Brand (born 1957), writer and comedian
- William Branthwaite (died 1620), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- Anna Brassey (1839–1887), travel writer
- Anna Eliza Bray (1790–1883), novelist and topographer
- Charles Bray (1811–1884), philosopher and phrenologist
- Angela Brazil (1868–1947), novelist
- Wallace Breem (1926–1990), novelist and librarian
- John Brent (1808–1882), novelist and antiquary
- Elinor Brent-Dyer (1894–1969), children's writer, the Chalet School series
- John Brereton (1571 or 1572 – c. 1632), travel writer and explorer
- Nicholas Breton (c. 1545 – c. 1626), poet and tractarian
- Richard Brett (1567–1637), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- Simon Brett (born 1945), novelist and playwright
- E. Cobham Brewer (1810–1897), writer and cleric, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
- George Brewer (born 1766), miscellanist
- James Norris Brewer (fl. 1799–1829), topographer and novelist
- John Brewster (1753–1842), religious writer and cleric
- Shane Briant (born 1946), novelist and actor
- John Bridges (1536–1618), tractarian and bishop
- Robert Bridges (1844–1930), Poet Laureate
- Katharine Mary Briggs (1898–1980), writer on folklore
- Raymond Briggs (born 1934), children's writer and illustrator, Father Christmas
- John Bright (1811–1889), orator and politician
- Joanna Briscoe (born 1963), novelist and journalist
- Vera Brittain (1893–1970), writer and pacifist
- Edwin Brock (1927–1997), poet
- William Brock (1807–1875), biographer and Baptist minister
- Alexander Brome (1620–1666), poet
- Richard Brome (c. 1590 – c. 1653), playwright, The Sparagus Garden
- Vincent Brome (1910–2004), biographer and novelist
- Eliza Bromley (fl. 1784–1803), novelist and translator
- Eleanor Bron (born 1938), writer and actress
- Anne Brontë (1820–1849), novelist, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855), novelist, Jane Eyre
- Emily Brontë (1818–1848), novelist and poet, Wuthering Heights
- Patrick Brontë (born Brunty, 1777–1861), poet, writer and cleric
- Arthur de Capell Brooke (1791–1858), travel writer
- Christopher N. L. Brooke (living), medieval historian
- Frances Brooke (1724–1789), novelist and playwright
- Jocelyn Brooke (1908–1966), novelist, poet and biographer
- Rupert Brooke (1887–1915), poet
- Anita Brookner (born 1929), novelist
- Kevin Brooks (born 1959), children's writer
- Shirley Brooks (1816–1874), novelist, playwright and poet
- Ralph Broome (1742–1835), pamphleteer and poet
- William Broome (1689–1745), poet and translator
- Robert Barnabas Brough (1828–1864), writer and poet
- George Brown (1835–1917), ethnographer, diarist and missionary
- John Brown (1715–1766), essayist and divine
- Pamela Brown (1924–1989), children's writer and TV producer
- Pete Brown (born 1940), performance poet and songwriter
- Pete Brown (born 1968), beer writer and columnist
- Stewart Brown (born 1951), poet and scholar
- Tom Brown (1663–1704), satirist and translator
- Anthony Browne (born 1946), children's writer and illustrator
- Edward Browne (1862–1926), orientalist and writer
- Isaac Hawkins Browne (1705–1760), poet
- Moses Browne (1704–1787), poet and cleric
- Thomas Browne (1705–1782), polymath, Religio Medici
- William Browne (c. 1590 – c. 1645), poet
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861), poet
- Oscar Browning (1837–1923), writer and scholar
- Robert Browning (1812–1889), poet
- Alan Brownjohn (born 1931), poet and novelist
- Dorita Fairlie Bruce (1885–1970), children's writer, Dimsie Goes to School
- Francis Bryan (c. 1490–1550), poet and courtier
- Samuel Egerton Brydges (1762–1836), bibliographer and editor
- Bryher (real name Annie Winifred Ellerman, 1894–1983), novelist, poet and memoirist
- Charles Bucke (1781–1846), writer and poet
- Anthony Buckeridge (1912–2004), children's writer, the Jennings stories
- James Silk Buckingham (1786–1855), journalist and travel writer
- Leicester Silk Buckingham (1825–1867), playwright and writer on history
- Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1826–1880), natural historian and surgeon
- William Buckland (1784–1856), geologist, palaeontologist and cleric
- Henry Thomas Buckle (1821–1862), historian
- Maria Elizabeth Budden (c. 1780–1832), children's writer
- Eustace Budgell (1686–1737), writer and politician
- Frank Thomas Bullen (1857–1915), novelist and autobiographer
- J. B. Bullen (living), writer on literature and art
- Gerald Bullett (1893–1958), novelist, critic and poet
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873, novelist, poet and playwright, The Last of the Barons
- Robert Bulwer-Lytton (wrote as Owen Meredith, 1831–1891), poet, Lucile
- Basil Bunting (1900–1985), poet, "Briggflatts"
- John Bunyan (1628–1688), writer, The Pilgrim's Progress
- Josiah Burchett (c. 1666–1746), naval historian and secretary to the Admiralty
- George Burges (1786–1864), Classical scholar
- Anthony Burgess (born John Burgess Wilson, 1917–1993), novelist, A Clockwork Orange
- Melvin Burgess (born 1954), children's writer, Junk
- John William Burgon (1813–1888), poet and theologian
- John Burgoyne (1722–1792), playwright and army officer
- Thomas Burke (1886–1945), novelist and writer on London
- William Burke (died 1798), pamphleteer and official
- Francis Burleigh (fl. 1590–1610), AV translator and cleric
- Andrew Burnaby (1732–1812), travel writer and cleric
- Francis Cowley Burnand (1836–1917), humorist and dramatist
- Thomas Burnet (c. 1635–1715), theologian and cosmogonist
- Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924), children's writer, The Secret Garden
- Charles Burney (1726–1814), music scholar and composer
- Charles Burney (1757–1817), scholar, schoolmaster and cleric
- Fanny Burney (also known as Frances, Mme d'Arblay, 1752–1840), novelist and diarist, Evelina
- Frances Burney (1776–1828), dramatist
- James Burney (1750–1821), travel writer and admiral
- Sarah Burney (1772–1844), novelist
- Richard Burns (poet) (also writes as Richard Berengarten, born 1943), poet
- Myles Burnyeat, (born 1939), philosopher and classicist
- James Burrow (1701–1782), scholar, scientist and lawyer
- Montagu Burrows (1819–1905), naval historian and naval officer
- Maurice Burton (1898–1992), popular science writer and zoologist
- Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890), writer, translator and explorer, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
- Robert Burton (1577–1640), polymath, The Anatomy of Melancholy
- Charlotte Bury (1775–1861), novelist and poet
- Elizabeth Bury (1644–1720), diarist and polymath
- Alban Butler (1710–1773), writer and cleric
- Gwendoline Butler (born 1922), novelist
- Joseph Butler (1692–1752), theologian and bishop
- Josephine Butler (1828–1906), writer and social campaigner
- Samuel Butler (1612–1680), poet and satirist, Hudibras
- Samuel Butler (1835–1902), writer and satirist, Erewhon
- Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979), historian and philosopher of history
- Jez Butterworth (born 1969), playwright, Jerusalem
- Mary Butts (1890–1937), writer and poet
- Bertha Henry Buxton (1844–1881), novelist and children's writer
- Nigel Buxton (born 1924), travel writer and wine critic
- Thomas Buxton (1786–1845), political writer, politician and social reformer
- A. S. Byatt (born 1936), novelist, Possession: A Romance
- John Byrom (1692–1763), poet
- John Byron (1723–1786), memoirist and admiral
- Lord Byron (1788–1824), poet, Don Juan
- Robert Byron (1905–1941), travel writer, The Road to Oxiana
- Ingram Bywater (1840–1914), scholar and editor
- Michael Bywater (born 1953), writer and broadcaster
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